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I started reading this at Mac's Backs, also skipped around, and read it later after the Dotter humored my desire that it be a gift from her. The reviews are intriguing- so much resistance and dismay at how different this is from the first volume of he...more |
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Right Wing Women: The Politics Of Domesticated Females
by Andrea Dworkin
recommended to Jude by:
Books of Athena Bookstore
read in January, 1985
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| i am 64 - this book brought my mother's generation to me in compassionate and world-view-changing ways back when it first came out. Dworkin's respectful and insightful take on the innately sexual politics of conservative women has proved prescient an...more | |
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...the light of autumn: you will not be spared. In a way, this is where i went after Mary Oliver. Gluck is in the natural and physical world too. Her vision is brilliant, dark, fearless. Nature becomes not simply a lover humanity has betrayed, but a m...more |
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given the stature of both the book and the film, i will add only personal notes: 1) i read this the year the paperback came out, sent in for the missing chapter and got it. 2) i quarreled with the casting of the Wesley in the film - his mouth irritated...more |
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Jude
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Hilary Mantel
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"October Light has one of my favorite opening scenes of all time - and i don't remember much any more ;->"
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"yeah - i read one PF and it must have been well-timed cause i fell in love. I dint ever follow through with more though - i think she's like Anita Bro...more
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“Love is a myth.'
'Love is a myth,' Grandfather Trout said. 'Like summer.'
'What?'
'In winter,'Grandfather Trout said, 'summer is a myth. A report, a rumor. Not to be believed in. Get it? Love is a myth. So is summer.”
― John Crowley, Little, Big
'Love is a myth,' Grandfather Trout said. 'Like summer.'
'What?'
'In winter,'Grandfather Trout said, 'summer is a myth. A report, a rumor. Not to be believed in. Get it? Love is a myth. So is summer.”
― John Crowley, Little, Big
“Nothing defines humans better than their willingness to do irrational
things in the pursuit of phenomenally unlikely payoffs. This is the
principle behind lotteries, dating, and religion.”
― Scott Adams
things in the pursuit of phenomenally unlikely payoffs. This is the
principle behind lotteries, dating, and religion.”
― Scott Adams
“Those who prepare for all the emergencies of life beforehand may equip themsleves at the expense of joy.”
― E.M. Forster, Howards End
― E.M. Forster, Howards End
“Ah, pray make no mistake,
We are not shy;
We're very wide awake,
The moon and I!
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― W. S. Gilbert (The Mikado)
We are not shy;
We're very wide awake,
The moon and I!
”
― W. S. Gilbert (The Mikado)
intersections - text (Nonfiction)
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responses to journaling exercises
transitory notations - archives (Nonfiction)
8 chapters
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old misc
show raps (Nonfiction)
9 chapters
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statements for one-woman shows
songs (Poetry)
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from far ago and long away mostly
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