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And because mere walls and windows must soon drive to madness a man who dreams and reads much, the dweller in that room used night after night to lean out and peer aloft to glimpse some fragment of things beyond the waking world and the
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“A translator ought to be faithful, but is not bound down to being literal.”
― Lenore
― Lenore
“Perhaps many white North Americans fear an overtly political art because it might persuade us emotionally of what we think we are “rationally” against; it might get us on a level we have lost touch with; undermine the safety we have built for oneselves, remind us of what is better left forgotten.”
― Adrienne Rich's Poetry and Prose: Poems Prose Reviews and Criticism
― Adrienne Rich's Poetry and Prose: Poems Prose Reviews and Criticism
“There is nothing North Americans seem to fear so much as manipulation, probably because at some level we know that we belong to a deeply manipulative system.”
― Adrienne Rich's Poetry and Prose: Poems Prose Reviews and Criticism
― Adrienne Rich's Poetry and Prose: Poems Prose Reviews and Criticism
“The enemy is always outside the self, the struggle somewhere else.”
― Adrienne Rich's Poetry and Prose: Poems Prose Reviews and Criticism
― Adrienne Rich's Poetry and Prose: Poems Prose Reviews and Criticism
“The retreat into sameness—assimilation for those who can manage it—is the most passive and debilitating of responses to political repression, economic insecurity, and a renewed open season on difference.”
― Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence
― Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence
Fun & Games
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The First Group on GR to be only about the games! Join, if: *you like games, *you join a group not only to discuss, *you are creative, *just looking f ...more
The Brontë Family
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— last activity Jul 21, 2016 12:05PM
Exploring the works, lives, and impact of the Brontë family -- especially that of Charlotte, Branwell, Emily, Anne, and Patrick.
Fans of Norah Lofts
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"...how much nearer can we come to understanding any one of the myriad dead who have gone to their graves, carrying their real secrets, of motive and ...more
Oscar Wilde Fan Group
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— last activity Apr 12, 2014 04:00AM
This group will welcome alls fans of Oscar Wilde's writing. If you truly enjoyed some (or all) of his plays, short-stories, poems, essays or his novel ...more
The Green Carnation
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— last activity Mar 23, 2013 11:02AM
LGBT Victorians! Pretty boys, witty boys, You may sneer At our disintegration. Haughty boys, naughty boys, Dear, dear, dear! Swooning with affe ...more
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