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"This is basically a huge scholarly paper and it is horrifying and I am enjoying it. It's a little slow-going, partly due to academic language but more due to the really really messed up implications." — Oct 19, 2017 05:32AM
"This is basically a huge scholarly paper and it is horrifying and I am enjoying it. It's a little slow-going, partly due to academic language but more due to the really really messed up implications." — Oct 19, 2017 05:32AM
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"I am almost halfway through this book and so far there have been zero dolls OR mothers" — Jan 05, 2018 06:11AM
"I am almost halfway through this book and so far there have been zero dolls OR mothers" — Jan 05, 2018 06:11AM
The artists, writers, and directors who experienced the Great War, most of them directly, never stopped having the same nightmare, over and again, a nightmare they told the world. Meanwhile, like a spell gone wrong, the Great War conjured
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“I thought we were gonna get eaten by brain goblins or something,” said Simon. “What’re brain goblins?” “No idea. That’s just what I thought when I saw the eyes. ‘Oh, shit, it’s brain goblins.’ ”
― The Hollow Places
― The Hollow Places
“The telephone, though a remarkable device, is not designed for real communication, for the heavy lifting of personal interaction. For the big stuff, you have to be in the same physical space. Questions are asked and answered on a chemical level: Our species lived and loved and dealt with each other for millions of years before we developed language. It’s still only ever background music.”
― The Intruders
― The Intruders
“It was hard to venture back near the place you’d been bred without settling into the characteristics of the person you’d been there.”
― Heart-Shaped Box
― Heart-Shaped Box
“I looked for the clock over the front desk, which is made from the taxidermied body of a cuckoo and resembles a dad joke given flesh.”
― The Hollow Places
― The Hollow Places
“Over two thousand Byzantine manuscripts devoted to medical works survive in European libraries. A third of these contain works by a single author such as the second-century Galen of Pergamon; the remaining manuscripts have selections from different classical and Byzantine medical writers. In this second group of manuscripts, scattered among the selections culled from treatises by well-known physicians, are many anonymous antidotaria—lists of pharmaceutical treatments for specific diseases, some as long as eighty-five folios.”
― Walking Corpses: Leprosy in Byzantium and the Medieval West
― Walking Corpses: Leprosy in Byzantium and the Medieval West
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