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A living room. Impressionist pastels hanging alongside family portraits sit neatly on lavender walls. Floral drapes match the sofa and chez-lounge. A cupboard of fine crystal glassware balances on spindly carved wooden legs. If you sat on the sofa, you would smell rosemary and lilac soap. A slight clink and whistle of a wind chime may be heard from the door. A woman enters, mid thirties, wearing...
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“a consolidates consciousness resides in a darkened banqueting hall near the...”
– Sarah Kane, 4.48 Psychosis
“And I want to play hide-and-seek and give you my clothes and tell you I like...”
– Sarah Kane Crave
“It is myself I have never met, whose face is pasted on the underside of my...”
– Sarah Kane, 4.48 Psychosis
This is the only story of mine whose moral I know. I don’t think it’s a marvelous moral; I simply happen to know what it is: We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.
My personal experience with Nazi monkey business was limited. There were some vile and lively native American Fascists in my home town in Indianapolis during the thirties, and...
“People think dreams aren’t real just because they aren’t made of matter, of...”
– Neil Gaiman
“Thus we do build up a defining story about ourselves, organized around a sort of...”
– Daniel Dennett, Consciousness Explained
“I am an emotional plagiarist, stealing other people’s pain, subsuming it...”
– Sarah Kane Crave
“We all dream dreams of unity, of purity; we all dream that there’s an...”
– Junot Diaz
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