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The enormity of this task sometimes makes me feel a little dizzy, but as a scientist and an explorer I have a duty to bear witness to the Splendours of the World.
“He told jokes like “Q: If you’re from England and you’re in the bathroom but you’re not pooping, what are you? A: European.”
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― Positive Obsession: The Life and Times of Octavia E. Butler
“Trump was their vehicle, his road paved for him, years earlier, by a hot and pungent brew: Ronald Reagan’s celebrity, Newt Gingrich’s belligerent discourse, and Pat Buchanan’s nativism.”
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“Every time I teach the Parable series the world seems to be on fire.”
― Positive Obsession: The Life and Times of Octavia E. Butler
― Positive Obsession: The Life and Times of Octavia E. Butler
“There is poetic justice in the fact that this era, between the civil rights movement and the nation’s Bicentennial, also sees the creation and rise of the neo-slave novel, with Octavia’s Kindred being one of the most groundbreaking examples of the genre.”
― Positive Obsession: The Life and Times of Octavia E. Butler
― Positive Obsession: The Life and Times of Octavia E. Butler
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