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“You make a jar, only it’s perforated with holes so the dormice can breathe, and the surfaces are polished so smooth that escape is impossible. You put food in the hollows, and you make sure there are some ledges and walkways so the dormice don’t get too bored. Most importantly, you keep it dark, so the dormice always think it’s time to hibernate. All they do is sleep and fatten themselves up.”
— Jan 11, 2026 01:52PM
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“‘Oh those white people have small hearts who can only feel for themselves.’” - Mary Prince, The History of Mary Prince
— Jan 15, 2026 04:16PM
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“Still, something did not seem right, and Robin could tell from Victoire's and Ramy's faces that they thought moment to realize what it was that grated on him, and when he did, it would bother him constantly, now and thereafter; it would seem a great paradox, the fact that after everything they had told Letty, all the pain they had shared, she was the one who needed comfort.”
— Jan 14, 2026 06:20PM
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"'It just doesn't feel...' Robin took a deep breath. 'It doesn't feel like we have the right to be alive.'"
— Jan 14, 2026 03:14PM
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"It sounded so abstract - just categories of use, exchange, and value - until it wasn't; until you realized the web you lived in the exploitations your life-style demanded, until you saw looming above it all the spectre of colonial labour and colonial pain. "
— Jan 14, 2026 03:12PM
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“Professor Lovell scoffed. ‘Never. I look at those men, and I think of the vast difference between us. I am where I am because I believe in knowledge and scientific progress, and I have used them to my advantage. They are where they are because they have stubbornly refused to move forward with the future. Men like that don’t scare me. Men like that make me laugh.’”
— Jan 11, 2026 04:14PM
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“English did not just borrow words from other languages; it was stuffed to the brim with foreign influences, a Frankenstein vernacular. And Robin found it incredible, how this country, whose citizens prided themselves so much on being better than the rest of the world, could not make it through an afternoon tea without borrowed goods”
— Jan 11, 2026 03:22PM
