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Body's a Bad Monster

by Rowan Isabelle Perez

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Davy said: " REVIEW IN PROGRESS

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Per the bio, the author uses "erasure text to intentionally refuse to engage with male voices or violence". I was startled when I first came across this; then I loved it. A whole phone conversation with her father block ...more "

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Butch Is a Noun

by S. Bear Bergman

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Ugly, Bitter, and True

by Suzanne Rivecca

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"And you鈥檙e so ashamed of your failure, so afraid of burdening people, so terrified of being beholden to or controlled by whatever might save and contain you, that you just recede, and disappear."

"I鈥檇 reached that dark inner place a Good Quote notes:

"And you鈥檙e so ashamed of your failure, so afraid of burdening people, so terrified of being beholden to or controlled by whatever might save and contain you, that you just recede, and disappear."

"I鈥檇 reached that dark inner place at which a catastrophe seemed less outlandish than a reprieve."

"I felt like it was my job to make the city care, to tell the story right, and I had to walk a fine line in order to do it: to tell the unvarnished truth about how desperate things were, but in a way that didn鈥檛 offend or accuse or beg too hard. The desired tone鈥攙erbal and written鈥攚as a kind of tempered, humble rationality, and the jarring dissonance between the tragedy and injustice I witnessed and the tepid equanimity with which I packaged it felt like a daily betrayal, of myself and of reality. When I resumed this job after my hiatus, I remembered how necessary the dissonance was, how it seeped into the daily fabric of my life and consciousness."

"The contrast between my mental state and the manic-pixie-priestess persona I had to embody鈥斺€淭urn your inner glow into an outie鈥� was an actual line of copy that sprung, like a rogue spiral of silly string, from the blackened hull of my brain鈥攚as at least absurd enough to distract me, in a bleak, bemused way."

"Every day felt like an ingestion of slow poison, and I鈥檇 lost the antidote. I was getting a little sicker all the time."

"At dusk I stood on various bridges over the Tiber and watched the starlings鈥� kaleidoscopic heavings, oceanic and billowy, ripe for interpretation, the morphing black Rorshachs of their massed-together bodies coagulating and thinning, waxing and waning, never resting, and I knew I was supposed to find meaning in their aerial designs but I couldn鈥檛. The birds kept shitting on my head"

"I was there, I was fortunate to be there, I was surrounded by deathless monumentality, and I had never felt more ephemeral and unnecessary to the world."

" Italy did not break them; it merely threw their brokenness into profound and excruciating relief. But I didn鈥檛 want to believe that they had all merely succumbed, as fated, to some inborn flaw in their synaptic composition. I wanted to believe that there was something Woolson had left undone, something the Academy ghosts had left undone: something they averted their eyes from, and ran from. Something they could have confronted and survived."

"Before the book came out, I wrote a six-page single-spaced letter addressed to every single member of my extended family. The letter was an attempt to convince my relatives that everything in the book was a product of my uncanny ability to put myself in the shoes of highly dysfunctional and fucked-up people whose antics I鈥檇 decided to dramatize as a humanist exercise in emotional ventriloquism. Nothing bad had ever happened to me, I assured them, and I was a well-adjusted, normal girl. There was nothing destructive in my depths; there was only a desire to understand and nobly portray other people鈥檚 inexplicable and unfathomable darkness.

By the time the book actually came out, I felt disassociated from my writing and unable to tap into the urgency that had always propelled it forward. I turned a polite, sweet, nervous face to the world, the face of a well-mannered and well-brought-up girl whose surprisingly 鈥渄ark鈥� work was entirely the product of empathetic imagination, not indicative of any justifiable rage or complexity in my own makeup.

I got the book out into the world; I wrote it, that was the important thing, and lying about it was merely the price I had to pay for letting it exist in the first place"

felt both fiercely protective of my secret activity and terrified that the very act outed me as 鈥渟ensitive鈥濃€攖hat is, as someone who absorbed everything everyone said and did with wretched permeability and then took up a pen and grotesquely enshrined it all, as if it mattered, as if I cared, as if it got under my skin. ...more "

May 01, 2023 01:51PM · see review

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The Gene: An Intimate History by Siddhartha Mukherjee

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Freaks became norms, and norms became extinct. Monster by monster, evolution advanced.

... But I'm NOT Racist!: Tools for Well-Meaning Whites

by Kathy Obear

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“For we each of us deserve everything, every luxury that was ever piled in the tombs of the dead kings, and we each of us deserve nothing, not a mouthful of bread in hunger. Have we not eaten while another starved? Will you punish us for that? Will you reward us for the virtue of starving while others ate? No man earns punishment, no man earns reward. Free your mind of the idea of deserving, the idea of earning, and you will begin to be able to think.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia

tags: ethics, politics

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“I will act now. I will act now. I will act now. Henceforth, I will repeat these words each hour, each day, everyday, until the words become as much a habit as my breathing, and the action which follows becomes as instinctive as the blinking of my eyelids. With these words I can condition my mind to perform every action necessary for my success. I will act now. I will repeat these words again and again and again. I will walk where failures fear to walk. I will work when failures seek rest. I will act now for now is all I have. Tomorrow is the day reserved for the labor of the lazy. I am not lazy. Tomorrow is the day when the failure will succeed. I am not a failure. I will act now. Success will not wait. If I delay, success will become wed to another and lost to me forever. This is the time. This is the place. I am the person.”
― Og Mandino

tags: activism, inertia, iniative, mantra

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“A wonderful bird is the Pelican.
His beak can hold more than his belly can.
He can hold in his beak
Enough food for a week!
But I'll be darned if I know how the hellican?”
― Dixon Lanier Merritt

tags: limericks

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