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“Thousands of miles from familiar surroundings, genuinely frightened, and perhaps strained by the grim conditions of shipboard life, Europeans took to killing any polar bear they saw. They shot them out of pettiness and a sense of rectitude. In time, killing polar bears became the sort of amusement people expected on an arctic journey … They shot them with colonial indifference.”

If I *don’t* finish this book this weekend I’m gonna lose it

This country’s nuclear program is truly indescribably evil lmaooo

Ali Smith is a freaky lil dyke and I love her for it!!

“If the desert is holy, it is because it is a forgotten place that allows us to remember the sacred. Perhaps that is why every pilgrimage to the desert is a pilgrimage to the self. There is no place to hide, and so we are found.”

Year of the desert. Locking in

“Therein lies the ambiguity of contemporary Japan: it is a pacifist nation sheltering under the American nuclear umbrella. One hopes that the accident at the Fukushima facility will allow the Japanese to reconnect with the victims of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, to recognize the danger of nuclear power, and to put an end to the illusion of the efficacy of deterrent that is advocated by nuclear powers.”

“Radioactivity may be invisible, but the atomic age does have color: the ‘color of calamity,’ the ‘ash-colored’ incinerated bodies and the crinkly pink flesh around the eyes of the victims, the black spots on the corpses of the mother and her child. The color is also green, like military costumes.”

fuckkk france fr lol