“I felt that blank incapability of invention which is the greatest misery of authorship, when dull Nothing replies to our anxious invocations. "Have you thought of a story?" I was asked every morning, and each morning I was forced to reply with a mortifying negative”
― Frankenstein: or, the Modern Prometheus
― Frankenstein: or, the Modern Prometheus
“If brainstorming becomes 'blamestorming' by reason of time pressure or on account of pure laziness, the truth may be assaulted and unyieldingly vilified . Blamestorming becomes then downright a perfidious appeal to scapegoating with a torrent of frantic manhunts for 'culprits on duty'. ('Blamestorming')”
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“These masked men were going to bring me to a cleaner place, where things were more sharply distinguished from one another and where I would finally have the space to figure out who I was without other people nudging me all the time into shapes they thought I should have.”
― You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine
― You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine
“Success comes as a result of the pressure exerted upon oneself.”
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Damian’s 2025 Year in Books
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