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“One of the hallmarks of lamentation is its excess. Talking becomes screaming, singing becomes wailing. Mourners act out their pain on their own bodies, tearing their clothes and hair, beating their chests, even inflicting injuries. This intensity sets it apart from other forms of public witnessing. Lamentation is communication as it reels toward the unsayable, the inexpressible pain of loss. I see in practices of exhumation, in the lengths gone to recover the dead after annihilating violence, something of this excess. The enormous forensic undertakings are scientific and legal efforts, but they are also expressions of pain and acts of faith. As a postcard pinned to an office door at the FAFG forensic laboratory says: “Archeology is my religion.”
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“I hated humans.
They were such a disappointment.
And to think, god switched dinosaurs for man.
He must be raging.”
― Binding 13
They were such a disappointment.
And to think, god switched dinosaurs for man.
He must be raging.”
― Binding 13
“Making a dessert is nothing less than crafting a smile.”
― Baking Across America: A Vintage Recipe Road Trip
― Baking Across America: A Vintage Recipe Road Trip
“The Hubble telescope swoops the other way. Halley’s Comet shoots back behind the trees as the Humvees roll, again, into Iraq.”
― Time Is a Mother
― Time Is a Mother
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