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I have been reading perhaps too many historical texts, including revisiting Richard Hakluyt's Voyages and Discoveries, and some new-to-me-but-not-new books on the history of the world viewed by an economist. It made an interesting mental backdrop to a recent piece in the Rolling Stone about corruption and bid rigging and all sorts of nefarious acts in the corporate financial system. Taibbi's pi...
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Never Knew Another (Dogsland, #1)
— published 2011 — 5 editions |
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Last Dragon
— published 2008 — 8 editions |
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When We Were Executioners (Dogsland, #2)
— published 2012 — 3 editions |
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Death Mask and Eulogy
— published 2011 — 2 editions |
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Women and Monsters
— published 2011 — 3 editions |
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Disintegration Visions
— published 2012 — 2 editions |
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Are You Listening?
— published 2013 |
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Nirvana Gates
— published 2012 |
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We Were Fish: Collected Poetry
— published 2011 |
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I Am Nature
— published 2011 — 2 editions |
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“I learned that every tree fights for sunlight in the canopy, but this happens so slowly that the combat looks like peace.”
― J.M. McDermott
― J.M. McDermott
“Do you know anything about hearts, Jona? The Senta know hearts. Hearts are not one organ. Inside a mother's womb, two pulsing bags of blood seek their eternal mate."
Her hand reached out to his. She opened his palm, and traced a finger down his lifeline, then his loveline. She lifter it up to her own face. She placed it on her cheek.
"Lungs are fine apart," she said, "Hands do not need another but to clap. Brains gnarl like roots in the nothing of soul, and guts spin in knots around the nothing of hunger. But hearts are made by two complete parts merging together. Once the two pieces sense each other in the blood flow, they cross every bloody cliff inside of us. The arteries bind the halves close. The veins make love to each other in the life pulse that makes all life from love entwined.”
― J.M. McDermott, When We Were Executioners
Her hand reached out to his. She opened his palm, and traced a finger down his lifeline, then his loveline. She lifter it up to her own face. She placed it on her cheek.
"Lungs are fine apart," she said, "Hands do not need another but to clap. Brains gnarl like roots in the nothing of soul, and guts spin in knots around the nothing of hunger. But hearts are made by two complete parts merging together. Once the two pieces sense each other in the blood flow, they cross every bloody cliff inside of us. The arteries bind the halves close. The veins make love to each other in the life pulse that makes all life from love entwined.”
― J.M. McDermott, When We Were Executioners
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