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"This is basically a huge scholarly paper and it is horrifying and I am enjoying it. It's a little slow-going, partly due to academic language but more due to the really really messed up implications." — Oct 19, 2017 05:32AM
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"I am almost halfway through this book and so far there have been zero dolls OR mothers" — Jan 05, 2018 06:11AM
"I am almost halfway through this book and so far there have been zero dolls OR mothers" — Jan 05, 2018 06:11AM
He could not force himself to understand how banks functioned and so forth, because all the operations of capitalism were as meaningless to him as the rites of a primitive religion, as barbaric, as elaborate, and as unnecessary.
“I thought we were gonna get eaten by brain goblins or something,” said Simon. “What’re brain goblins?” “No idea. That’s just what I thought when I saw the eyes. ‘Oh, shit, it’s brain goblins.’ ”
― The Hollow Places
― The Hollow Places
“Over two thousand Byzantine manuscripts devoted to medical works survive in European libraries. A third of these contain works by a single author such as the second-century Galen of Pergamon; the remaining manuscripts have selections from different classical and Byzantine medical writers. In this second group of manuscripts, scattered among the selections culled from treatises by well-known physicians, are many anonymous antidotaria—lists of pharmaceutical treatments for specific diseases, some as long as eighty-five folios.”
― Walking Corpses: Leprosy in Byzantium and the Medieval West
― Walking Corpses: Leprosy in Byzantium and the Medieval West
“If she asked Father Josiah, he would tell her to ask for forgiveness for Abu Zaidoun—she never would. If she asked God or Saint George the Martyr or the ghost of her son, they would tell her she didn’t need to ask forgiveness for Abu Zaidoun. She was fully entitled to seek revenge because it would strengthen her faith and give her ailing spirit the energy it needed to keep on living.”
― Frankenstein in Baghdad
― Frankenstein in Baghdad
“I looked for the clock over the front desk, which is made from the taxidermied body of a cuckoo and resembles a dad joke given flesh.”
― The Hollow Places
― The Hollow Places
“All of that requires that they do what you’re talking about: destroying our empathy and reducing our faith in reason. Those guys on the border laughed when they let you through because you’re not even human to them. You’re a unit of something else. They rename you ‘test subject’ or ‘enemy,’ or they assign you a race or a nation or a class—and then they don’t have to think about you anymore.”
― The Loop
― The Loop
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