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Asmodeo

by Rita Indiana

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Mandamás

by Manolo Núñez Negrón

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Language City: The Fight to Preserve Endangered Mother Tongues in New York

by Ross Perlin

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“I see no reason for resigning my right to that inventive freedom which others enjoy; and, as I have no truth to put on record, having lived a very humdrum life, I fall back on falsehood--but falsehood of a more consistent variety; for I now make the only true statement you are to expect--that I am a liar.”
― Lucian of Samosata, True History and Lucius or The Ass

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“Knowing that you're crazy doesn't make the crazy things stop happening.”
― Mark Vonnegut, The Eden Express: A Memoir of Insanity

tags: schizophrenia

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“By words the mind is winged.”
― Aristophanes

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“as soon as we renounce fiction and illusion, we lose reality itself; the moment we subtract fictions from reality, reality itself loses its discursive-logical consistency.”
― Slavoj Žižek, Tarrying with the Negative: Kant, Hegel, and the Critique of Ideology

tags: discourse, fiction, ideology, imaginary, philosophy, real, symbolic

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“When he had gone home, he had been frightened, he had refused to face what he saw. But he had not really wanted to come home to a land, only to a pas; and not finding the past there, he had run away, fearing the reality, preferring the dream.”
― Nick Joaquín, The Woman Who Had Two Navels

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