perforation
"You are a composite of all the things that happened to you, all of which you have no knowledge of. I think this way, not because I want to write something down. I'm here thinking because my hand is holding a pen that is easy to use. You close your only exit....
they jumped into my head
The seed of the alien-abduction belief is always a question. Such questions can seem small and insignificant: "Why did I wake up in the middle of the night unable to move?" "Why do I have frequent nightmares?" "What are these strange coin-shaped marks on my...
swans are mean
[flowplayer src='https://www.bootrundle.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/persepolis1.m4v' splash='http://www.bootrundle.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/Screen-Shot-2012-03-01-at-8.38.11-PM.png'] "You feel cold so I reach for a blanket to cover our shivering feet." --hafiz
fixed machine
€ Family breaks up. It leaves marks on three children, two of whom ruin themselves keeping a family together and a third who doesn’t. € A young woman bill collector undertakes to collect a ruined man’s debts. They prove to be moral as well as financial. € Story...
the big house
[flowplayer src='https://www.bootrundle.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/darcylizzie2.m4v' splash='http://www.bootrundle.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/darcythumbnail2.jpg'] I am neither prince nor troll nor toad but time itself. Campbell McGrath, from the...
a head of himself
"He spoke in two voices. He was in his fifties. He'd wasted his entire life. Such people were very dear to those of us who'd...
locked in
Not only was I exiled, paralyzed, mute, half deaf, deprived of all pleasures, and reduced to the existence of a jellyfish, but I was also horrible to behold. There comes a time when...
remember the future
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the dash
"I have just returned from a party of which I was the life and soul; wit poured from my lips, everyone laughed and admired me—but I went away—and the dash should be as long as the earth's orbit - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -...
identity theft
"Tommy's indifference applied to his everyday decisions as well as his broader reflections. On the issue of choosing his academic program, he said, "I don't know what I'm going to take next term. They make you pick some courses. I'll just say 'what the hell'...
tilt
"We're all dealing with fiction here, but the sensation of authenticity around the look is really important. That sensation can be created in a lot of ways—one of which was to give our heroine greasy hair. If you look at early photographs they always have really...
getting the love you want
[flowplayer src='https://www.bootrundle.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/darthvaderclip.m4v' splash='http://www.bootrundle.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/vaderjpeg-e1329621731862.png'] Marie follows him into the rut: "When did you ask me to have sex? Go through it...
different reds
If one says "Red" (the name of a color) and there are 50 people listening, it can be expected that there will be 50 reds in their minds. And one can be sure that all these reds will be very different. Josef Albers, Interaction of Color ...
the lost colony
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and so i repress myself
And so I repress myself, and swallow the call-note of depth-dark sobbing. (leishman) And so I restrain myself and swallow the luring call of dark sobbing. (macintyre) So I withhold myself and keep back the lure of my dark sobbing. (garmey/wilson) And so...
three troublesome pairs of verbs
Three pairs of verbs require special study and drill because they are more difficult to use correctly than any other verbs. These special verbs are lie, lay, sit, set, rise, and raise. Most difficult to use correctly are the verbs lie and lay. If you do not habitually...
a bully for you
[flowplayer src='https://www.bootrundle.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/bottlerocketwesanderson2.m4v' splash='http://www.bootrundle.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/brss.png'] "What is your aim in philosophy? To show the fly the way out of the fly-bottle." --ludwig...
how do you look at it?
The book: A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide The author: Samantha Power One piece of the picture: a bizarre and destructive mental state in which people are able to know, and at the same time not know, about something evil that is happening An...