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"En La Noche
Sun and Shadow
The Meadow
The Garbage Collector
The Great Fire
The Golden Apples of the Sun" — May 19, 2026 02:53PM
"En La Noche
Sun and Shadow
The Meadow
The Garbage Collector
The Great Fire
The Golden Apples of the Sun" — May 19, 2026 02:53PM
Burmese Days
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“And such a short time ago, even just before the war, they were so nice and respectful! The way they salaamed when you passed them on the road—it was really quite charming.
“What a small thing she had asked for, to be left alone, to be allowed the solace of her own atoms. The only cocks she wanted inside her were the ones she requested, the only hands on her body the ones she begged to have touching her, the only knife in her gut the one she lodged there herself.”
― An Unkindness of Ghosts
― An Unkindness of Ghosts
“Dr. Rosbone ingeniously argues that the author, a wingless neuter-female worker, yearns hopelessly to be a winged male, and to found a new colony, flying upward in the nuptial flight with a new Queen.”
― The Author of the Acacia Seeds and Other Extracts from the Journal of the Association of Therolinguistics
― The Author of the Acacia Seeds and Other Extracts from the Journal of the Association of Therolinguistics
“And with them, or after them, may there not come that even bolder adventurer—the first geolinguist, who, ignoring the delicate, transient lyrics of the lichen, will read beneath it the still less communicative, still more passive, wholly atemporal, cold, volcanic poetry of the rocks: each one a word spoken, how long ago, by the earth itself, in the immense solitude, the immenser community, of space.”
― The Author of the Acacia Seeds and Other Extracts from the Journal of the Association of Therolinguistics
― The Author of the Acacia Seeds and Other Extracts from the Journal of the Association of Therolinguistics
“Here in the US we used to go on about our "First World problems." Nobody's pretending folks wouldn't be worse off if a storm like Luna had made landfall in Dhaka or Lagos. But the point is, it hit here, twice in ten days. And when the choice is between nothing and something, most folks will settle for a tent and three squares any day. Situation like that, your so-called First World gets real small, real fast.”
― The Displacements
― The Displacements
“I say the gods deal very unrightly with us. For they will neither (which would be best of all) go away and leave us to live our own short days to ourselves, nor will they show themselves openly and tell us what they would have us do. For that too would be endurable. But to hint and hover, to draw us in dreams and oracles, or in a waking vision that vanishes as soon as seen, to be dead silent when we question them and then glide back and whisper (words we cannot understand) in our ears when we most wish to be free of them, and to show to one what they hide from another; what is all this but cat-and-mouse play, blindman's bluff, and mere jugglery? Why must holy places be dark places?”
― Till We Have Faces
― Till We Have Faces
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