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The Song of Achilles
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the air of fearless self-assurance she projected was merely an imposture, a front designed to ward off intimacy and to banish her immense uncertainty and moral guilt.
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Derek Mahon
“Sunrise in the Irish Sea, dawn over Dublin Bay
after a stormy night, one shivering star;
and I picture the harsh waking everywhere,
the devastations of a world at war,
airfields, radio silence, a darkened convoy
strung out in moonlight on a glittering sea.”
Derek Mahon, The Yellow Book

“Ireland is different from the other countries that introduced institutional change in the judicial selection system. Policy changed occurred quickly and without the debate that took place in other countries. Institutional change to judicial selection processes was introduced although there was little evidence of political commitment to such change. The trigger for institutional change was the need to find a solution to a political crisis that might prevent the coalition government from breaking up.”
Jennifer Carroll MacNeill, The Politics of Judicial Selection in Ireland

Derek Mahon
“Now the ivory towers will be 'visitor centres'
visited mostly during the long winters
by sea-birds — cormorant, puffin, kittiwake —
and their quartz lenses' own impersonal stroke
while automatically their hard gem-like flames
circulating at night unseen in empty rooms
preside over global warming and polar melt-down,
over Bill Long's Marie-Celeste effect and 'sonar-singing dark'.”
Derek Mahon, The Yellow Book

“If men tend to see structural barriers as minimal to nonexistent, is it any wonder that they feel little incentive to advocate for women?”
Colleen Ammerman, Glass Half-Broken: Shattering the Barriers That Still Hold Women Back at Work

Sarah Manguso
“I was in charge of everything and in control of nothing.”
Sarah Manguso, Liars

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