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"My first live dissection was a large mouse. The pleasure of opening it up, and knowing it was still alive, knowing the life was bleeding away through my fingers was almost overwhelming."
— Oct 09, 2015 01:40AM
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"I knew from the first that it was an error to think of the twins as my children, whatever the biological reality. I had no real connection with these creatures who lay in the basement room, crying and fouling themselves, clinging to a life that I could easily have ended with a basin of water or a length of twine."
— Nov 20, 2015 01:19PM
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"I reacted appropriately. ‘A corpse? Here? I’m sorry, I— ’"
— Oct 13, 2015 11:55PM
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"No choice is ever made on the basis of logic; the logic is fabricated around the impulse…"
— Oct 08, 2015 01:20AM
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"No choice is ever made on the basis of logic; the logic is fabricated around the impulse…"
— Oct 08, 2015 01:20AM
Irene
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"…and I made my own private catalogue of implosions and seepages, ergots and mildews, sickening odours, twitches, vanishings."
— Oct 07, 2015 04:49PM
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"The trick and the beauty of language is that it seems to order the whole universe, misleading us into believing that we live in sight of a rational space, a possible harmony."
— Oct 07, 2015 04:24PM
Irene
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"No one could say it was my choice to kill the twins, any more than it was my decision to bring them into the world."
— Oct 07, 2015 04:08PM
