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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
"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
Capital punishment was thus never a simple expression of public engagement. By the post-execution stage it had to be act of co-creation too, to be convincing. This meant that the penal choreography needed to stimulate human empathy,
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“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
“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
“A bunch of links were to spiritual warfare, which Uncle Earl had told me about once, where people think they’re off fighting demons. I suppose that’s one way to make church more interesting, but it all sounded like Jesus LARP to me. (I told Uncle Earl that, which forced me to explain LARPing. If you’ve never tried to describe hitting other people dressed as orcs with foam weapons, particularly to an elderly relative, you haven’t really lived.)”
― The Hollow Places
― The Hollow Places
“We put our feet on the hard ground, take in the night air and look around as if this whole place has sprung up for us and us alone. Not just the house, but the ancient trees, the watching insects, the stars and even the moon. But they have all lived without us for lifetimes that make our own look like the blink of the eye. The house, with its strict walls and severe lines, is shamefully out of place, something modern dropped down somewhere as soft as feathers, as twisty and spreading as willow roots. How do the trees and the insects and the stars and the moon like it, I wonder? How do they like to have to share their secret lives with us now?”
― The Witch of Willow Hall: A Chilling Gothic Mystery of Haunted Houses and Ancient Magic
― The Witch of Willow Hall: A Chilling Gothic Mystery of Haunted Houses and Ancient Magic
“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
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