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Cannibal
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A writer is a kind of benevolent cannibal who eats the world.
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Hers was not an easy sleep. Through her dreams there came and went the young girls of her mother’s stories: girls who had left their little houses against the rules and custom. Some of them were bitten by snakes and died at once; some of them lived long enough to bring shame and sorrow to their families, and then died; and there was the one who cut herself and sucked her own blood and liked the taste so much, she ate more and more of herself, becoming nothing but a head—a Cannibal Head—which dev
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― The Inland Whale: Nine Stories Retold from California Indian Legends
― The Inland Whale: Nine Stories Retold from California Indian Legends
