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“She taught him about the intricacies of Chinese grammar, or really how there was none, and how in Chinese the conceptual metaphors for time and space were the opposite of in English. The Chinese believe you can see the past, but not the future, she explained; therefore you can only walk backward into the future.”
— Sep 19, 2025 06:48AM
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“Borges had written once of a distant wildfire, colored the pink of a leopard's gums. The cat was close enough now that Alice could see its raw wound of a mouth. She wondered if this was Borges's leopard. Fire in a maw, ravenous flame.”
— Oct 11, 2025 06:02PM
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“As Aristotle put it, complete happiness was some form of study.”
— Sep 08, 2025 02:29PM
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“She felt, as she often did, that her body had no defined boundaries from the material world; that if she stopped holding herself together as a subject, she would dissolve like a sugar cube in tea.”
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