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Wool Omnibus (Silo, #1)

by Hugh Howey (Goodreads Author)

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The Left Hand of Darkness

by Ursula K. Le Guin

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“An elk mother, cornered, will slash with her hooves and tear with her mouth and even offer the hope of her own hamstrings, and if none of that works, she'll rise again years and years later, because it's never over, it's always just beginning again.”
― Stephen Graham Jones, The Only Good Indians

tags: elk, horror, motherhood

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“...Generations of black men had been frequenting Mt. Morris since the Harlem Renaissance. Rumor had it that Countee Cullen ditched his wife after he and Harold Jackman made Mt. Morris their regular rendezvous in the late 1920s. In the time since, thousands upon thousands of Black men used their bodies to create this delicate, invisible web connecting the queers of old to newcomers like me.”
― Rasheed Newson, My Government Means to Kill Me

tags: 2slgbtqia, bathhouse, black, history, queer

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“Zee had only grinned at me when I was valuable to her. I'd go on to tangle with other bosses and authority figures, and that dynamic never changed. Affection never outlasted need. This was the first lesson the city taught me the hard way. The vast majority of us are merely pawns in someone else's game. Don't get defensive over this point. Embrace it. Once you do, you can begin to manipulate the board. Positioned correctly, pawns can checkmate kings.”
― Rasheed Newson, My Government Means to Kill Me

tags: authority, capitalism, chess, work

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“In the sporadic but relentless mudslide of self-contempt that characterized those years, I decided that, not only wasn't I good in the sense of being a good boy, but I also wasn't good in the sense of being a good person.”
― Marc Lewis, Memoirs of an Addicted Brain: A Neuroscientist Examines His Former Life on Drugs

tags: drugs, ethics, goodness

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“The lion on the left had advanced all the way to the fence now; its muzzle was touching the boards. It seemed to be grinning at him. Jack backed up another two steps. His head was thudding crazily and he could feel the dry rasp of his breath in his throat. Now the buffalo had moved, circling to the right, behind and around the rabbit. The head was lowered, the green hedge horns pointing at him. The thing was, you couldn't watch all of them. Not all at once.”
― Stephen King, The Shining

tags: hallucination, horror, insanity, topiary

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