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"Evil?" Womble rarely used the word in his work. It was a storybook word. Neither right nor wrong. A word made up to fill a gap in how to talk about the world when it tilted on its side spilling out more blood and pain than people could ...more
Steve Chisnell
Now here's the Arrington rhetorical irony i know!
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Simon Leys
“Whenever people wonder “What is the truth?” usually it is because the truth is just under their noses—but it would be very inconvenient to acknowledge it.”
Simon Leys, The Hall of Uselessness: Collected Essays

“The future can never be larger than the past," she said to his disappearing back. "What will happen can never escape what has.”
Phillip Arrington, The Serpent's Sage

Homi K. Bhabha
“A statement on the political responsibility of the critic: the critic must attempt to fully realize, and take responsibility for, the unspoken, unrepresented pasts that haunt the historical present.”
Homi K. Bhabha, The Location of Culture

“There are stories that don't need a plot. Sooner or later they rise above the confusion and untangle their mysteries in a series of sentences.”
Patrice Nganang, Mount Pleasant

Thando Mgqolozana
“I had to decide between being a man who is not entirely a man, and being a dead man. I chose the former.”
Thando Mgqolozana, A Man Who is Not a Man

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