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“This has all been verified. Under the microscope. The male sperms are faster.” “I bet they’re stupider, too.”
I’m the final clause in a periodic sentence, and that sentence begins a long time ago, in another language, and you have to read it from the beginning to get to the end, which is my arrival.
Emotions, in my experience, aren’t covered by single words. I don’t believe in “sadness,” “joy,” or “regret.” Maybe the best proof that the language is patriarchal is that it oversimplifies feeling.
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There is no evidence against genetic determinism more persuasive than the children of the rich.
Now all the mute objects of my life seem to tell my story, to stretch back in time, if I look closely enough.
In this life we grow backwards.
Life started out one thing and then suddenly turned a corner and became something else.
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