“Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .”
― The Four Loves
― The Four Loves
“Just the other day, I was in my neighborhood Starbucks, waiting for the post office to open. I was enjoying a chocolatey cafe mocha when it occurred to me that to drink a mocha is to gulp down the entire history of the New World. From the Spanish exportation of Aztec cacao, and the Dutch invention of the chemical process for making cocoa, on down to the capitalist empire of Hershey, PA, and the lifestyle marketing of Seattle's Starbucks, the modern mocha is a bittersweet concoction of imperialism, genocide, invention, and consumerism served with whipped cream on top.”
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“I know many lives worth living.”
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“Nolite te bastardes carborundorum.”
― The Handmaid’s Tale
― The Handmaid’s Tale
“the stars began to burn
through the sheets of clouds,
and there was a new voice
which you slowly
recognized as your own”
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through the sheets of clouds,
and there was a new voice
which you slowly
recognized as your own”
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History, Medicine, and Science: Nonfiction and Fiction
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