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Contents:7 - Introduction (Douglas Thompson)
17 - Of Those Who Follow Emile Bilonche
29 - Laudate Dominum
47 - Clematis, White and Purple
63 - Ophelia
71 - The Volunteer
93 - Blood and Smoke, Vinegar and Ashes
121 - Holzwege
135 - How to Make a Secret
145 - M ...more "
“It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.”
― I, Candidate for Governor: And How I Got Licked
― I, Candidate for Governor: And How I Got Licked
“Language is a poor enough means of communication as it is. So we should use all the words we have.”
― The Drowning Girl
― The Drowning Girl
“I know writers who use subtext, and they're all cowards.”
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“Long before we had writing or farms or post-digital strike helicopters, we had each other. We lived together and changed each other, and so we needed to say “this is who I am, this is what I do.”
So, in the same way that we attached sounds to meanings to make language, we began to attach clusters of behavior to signal social roles. Those clusters were rich, and quick-changing, and so just like language, we needed networks devoted to processing them. We needed a place in the brain to construct and to analyze gender.”
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So, in the same way that we attached sounds to meanings to make language, we began to attach clusters of behavior to signal social roles. Those clusters were rich, and quick-changing, and so just like language, we needed networks devoted to processing them. We needed a place in the brain to construct and to analyze gender.”
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“That's when you know you've found somebody really special. When you can just shut the fuck up for a minute and comfortably share silence.”
― Pulp Fiction: A Quentin Tarantino Screenplay
― Pulp Fiction: A Quentin Tarantino Screenplay
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