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"WE SEEK A WORLD IN WHICH THERE IS ROOM FOR MANY WORLDS"

"a thousand years from now," the doctor was fond of saying (ecological apocalypse being one of his favorite subjects), "we'll all be walking barefoot. all of us. walking barefoot through the wreckage; barefoot through the swishing grass."

rivers of blood may have to flow before we gain our freedom, but it must be our blood.

my least favorite breed of MFA writer--and there are many, many breeds of MFA writers--is the kind who does not seem to understand that sentences have endings, that feels the need for just one more clause, just one more, to tie the sentence together, and they just pile on and on, infinite, stretching out into forever, until the paragraph ends and you find yourself halfway down the next page and you mumble to y