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I believe in fiction and the power of stories because that way we speak in tongues. We are not silenced.
All of us, when in deep trauma, find we hesitate, we stammer; there are long pauses in our speech. •••
I needed words because unhappy families are conspiracies of silence.
— Sep 27, 2026 08:59PM
All of us, when in deep trauma, find we hesitate, we stammer; there are long pauses in our speech. •••
I needed words because unhappy families are conspiracies of silence.
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dimiloaf
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Like most people, when I look back, the family house is held in time, or rather it is now outside of time, because it exists so clearly and it does not change, and it can only be entered through a door in the mind.
— Sep 28, 2026 12:44AM
dimiloaf
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She hated the small and the mean, and yet that is all she had. I bought a few big houses myself along the way, simply because I was trying out something for her. In fact, my tastes are more modest - but you don't know that until you have bought and sold for the ghost of your mother.
— Sep 28, 2026 12:23AM
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All those hours spent sitting on my bum on the doorstep have given me a feeling for liminal space. I love the way cats like to be half in half out, the wild and the tame, and I too am the wild and the tame. I am domestic, but only if the door is open.
And I guess that is the key - no one is ever going to lock me in or lock me out again. My door is open and I am the one who opens it.
— Sep 28, 2026 12:22AM
And I guess that is the key - no one is ever going to lock me in or lock me out again. My door is open and I am the one who opens it.
dimiloaf
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she knew of a family whose youngest child had climbed into the fridge to play hide-and-seek, and frozen to death.
They had to defrost the fridge to prise him out. After that the council took away the other children. I wondered why they didn't just take away the fridge.
— Sep 28, 2026 12:22AM
They had to defrost the fridge to prise him out. After that the council took away the other children. I wondered why they didn't just take away the fridge.
dimiloaf
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…poured paraffin over the books and set them on fire. I watched them blaze and blaze and remember thinking how warm it was, how light, on the freezing Saturnian January night. And books have always been light and warmth to me.
— Sep 27, 2026 10:49PM
dimiloaf
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When people say that poetry is a luxury, or for the educated middle classes, or because it is irrelevant ••• I suspect that the people doing the saying have had things pretty easy. A tough life needs a tough language - and that is what poetry is. That is what literature offers - a language powerful enough to say how it is.
It isn't a hiding place. It is a finding place.
— Sep 27, 2026 10:44PM
It isn't a hiding place. It is a finding place.
dimiloaf
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The missing part, the missing past, can be an opening, not a void. It can be an entry as well as an exit. It is the fossil record, the imprint of another life, and although you can never have that life, your fingers trace the space where it might have been, and your fingers learn a kind of Braille.
— Sep 27, 2026 08:57PM