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"Interesting how the Winged Monkeys both are and aren't nightmare fuel in the original version. They are slaves to the Witch and do terrible things and are grabby and mischeivious and just chaos in a disturbing way, but also have a back story that tells of their punishment and enslavement..." Jan 17, 2026 12:11PM

 
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My understanding of poetry’s consolatory powers has more in common with psychoanalysis as a way of fortifying the self through the acceptance of perpetual unrest. Our
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“Bypasses are devices that allow some people to dash from point A to point B very fast while other people dash from point B to point A very fast. People living at point C, being a point directly in between, are often given to wonder what's so great about point A that so many people from point B are so keen to get there, and what's so great about point B that so many people from point A are so keen to get there. They often wish that people would just once and for all work out where the hell they wanted to be.”
Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

Marcel Proust
“Let us leave pretty women to men with no imagination.”
Marcel Proust, The Captive / The Fugitive

“For it is characteristic of true simplicity that there may radiate from its utmost directness a good many glinting things.”
Christopher Ricks

Marcel Proust
“But sometimes the future is latent in us without our knowing it, and our supposedly lying words foreshadow an imminent reality.”
Marcel Proust, Sodom and Gomorrah

P.G. Wodehouse
“It has been well said that an author who expects results from a first novel is in a position similar to that of a man who drops a rose petal down the Grand Canyon of Arizona and listens for the echo.”
P.G. Wodehouse, Cocktail Time

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