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I was up at 5:00 am yesterday, Central time, and fell asleep early last night.
I was up early this morning and decided to walk. LA is famous for the observation that nobody walks, but of course, that's not true. Lots of people are walking at 8:00am. Many of them, dressed in scrubs, or jeans and casual clothes, or uniforms, are walking to or from bus stops. Most of them are brown or black. The o... read more »
I was up early this morning and decided to walk. LA is famous for the observation that nobody walks, but of course, that's not true. Lots of people are walking at 8:00am. Many of them, dressed in scrubs, or jeans and casual clothes, or uniforms, are walking to or from bus stops. Most of them are brown or black. The o... read more »
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China Mountain Zhang
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After the Apocalypse: Stories
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Nekropolis
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Mothers & Other Monsters: Stories
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Half the Day is Night
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Interview: On Any Given Day
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Presence
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The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Sixth Annual Collection
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“Sydney did not believe in life after death,but in her experience, admitting this could lead to long and complicated discussions in which people seem to think that since she did not believe in God or the afterlife, there was nothing to stop her from becoming an ax murderer.”
― Maureen F. McHugh, After the Apocalypse: Stories
― Maureen F. McHugh, After the Apocalypse: Stories
“In my experience ideology is a lot like religion; it's a belief system and most people cling to it long after it becoems clear that their ideology doesn't describe the real world.”
― Maureen F. McHugh, China Mountain Zhang
― Maureen F. McHugh, China Mountain Zhang
“The Second Koran tells us that the darkness in ourselves is a sinister thing. It waits until we relax, it waits until we reach the most vulnerable moments, and then it snares us. I want to be dutiful. I want to do what I should. But when I go back to the tube, I think of where I am going; to that small house and my empty room. What will I do tonight? Make more paper flowers, more wreaths? I am sick of them. Sick of the Nekropolis.
I can take the tube to my mistress' house, or I can go by the street where Mardin's house is. I'm tired. I'm ready to go to my little room and relax. Oh, Holy One, I dread the empty evening. Maybe I should go by the street just to fill up time. I have all this empty time in front of me. Tonight and tomorrow and the week after and the next month and all down through the years as I never marry and become a dried-up woman. Evenings spent folding paper. Days cleaning someone else's house. Free afternoons spent shopping a bit, stopping in tea shops because my feet hurt. That is what lives are, aren't they? Attempts to fill our time with activity designed to prevent us from realizing that there is no meaning?”
― Maureen F. McHugh, Mothers & Other Monsters: Stories
I can take the tube to my mistress' house, or I can go by the street where Mardin's house is. I'm tired. I'm ready to go to my little room and relax. Oh, Holy One, I dread the empty evening. Maybe I should go by the street just to fill up time. I have all this empty time in front of me. Tonight and tomorrow and the week after and the next month and all down through the years as I never marry and become a dried-up woman. Evenings spent folding paper. Days cleaning someone else's house. Free afternoons spent shopping a bit, stopping in tea shops because my feet hurt. That is what lives are, aren't they? Attempts to fill our time with activity designed to prevent us from realizing that there is no meaning?”
― Maureen F. McHugh, Mothers & Other Monsters: Stories
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