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‘To be a sharer is to feel the pleasure and the pain—the apparent pleasure and the apparent pain—of other people. There have been times when I’ve felt the pleasure of one of our “teachers” when he lashed someone. The first time it happened—or rather, the first time I understood what was happening, I threw up.’

Jesus this book is even MORE depressing than the first one

Chapter 11 was nightmare fuel 😭

“She began to think less about Acorn and more about Earthseed—about spreading Earthseed to whole groups of new people. She wrote more than once in her journal that she hoped to use missionaries to make conversions in nearby cities and towns and to build whole new Earthseed communities—clones of Acorn. I think she especially liked this last idea.”

Oh she's delusional delusional

"Leave your sinful past behind, and become one of us. Help us to make America great again."

This was written in 1998!! WTF? Octavia Butler literally saw into the future. It's bizarre...