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Nowadays, though, she might write to her brother "Take care of youself," but not "Please fight for the country with all your might." She had learned how hard her young heart must have been to have written that message over and over without a twinge of pain.

People who mewl and puke about not being able to oh so subtly and multifariously dehumanize others anymore need to grow up.

It's true enough that poems and books cannot stave off hunger,
But if I threw away my poems and books, I wouldn't have a life.

Wang Duanshu (1621-1685), 'When My Woman Friend Dong Dasurou Came for a Visit, There Was No Cooked Food'

The landscape of Euro/Neo-Euro lit would be more interesting if parents had thought to publish the works of their deceased daughters.

If you had no higher motive than the approval of your fellow mortal, it would do you little good.

What he would be, if I did not so watchfully anticipate his wants, and so carefully avoid, or immediately desist from doing anything that has a tendency to irritate or disturb him, with however little reason, I cannot tell.

This week's class is canceled. Bah humbug >:(

So farewell hope and, with hope, farewell fear;
Farewell remorse.

And people will still have to go on living after the war's over, you know.

Seeing super popular GR folks review super buried 500 GBBW: careful with the merchandise there, bub.

It is logical to be inhumane. What use is humanity?

The fact that the thought of grad school has shifted from terrifying to exciting is a good sign.

I'm very pleased to be returning to this in a more scholarly context.

GR's Librarian Group doesn't have a section for filling out author profiles for some ignorant reason, so here's a link for anyone's who so inclined to Wiki and has access to library powers: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show...

GR revoked my ability to do librarian work. Ah well. It was only a matter of time.

Here enemies are a luxury only the poor can afford.

Hearing about someone who's not a het cis white boy winning a literary award always makes my day.

All the same, he realised finally that sometimes you had to sell your soul to maintain your innocence.

Adorbs Shakespeare Goodreads logo makes my day.

This chapter devoted entirely to Li Qingzhao, one of only two chapters out of sixteen which concerns a woman writer rather than a group, just smacked me upside the head for not knowing who she is.

Sheng Keyi stands out from the other writers born in the 1970s in that she is so vulgar, filthy, shallow, and shameless. Her presence ensures that the world will see her generation as incapable of speech and lacking in depth of ideology.

A reviewer of books, and a very good friend of mine, Zeying Wang (ZW) :) : http://reviews.libraryjournal.com/201...

For him there's no such thing as a natural death, we'd all live for ever, but for the curses heaped upon us by our enemies.

I TYPED THE FIRST LINE OF MY 'PARADISE LOST' ESSAY AND MY INTERNET CAME BACK. THE GODS HAVE SPOKEN.

Wanna play hardball with pen names? Let's play.

My adoration for Ghost in the Shell is making my loathing of the white supremacism puking its filthy guts all over it that much worse.

"Sir," I interrupted him, "you are inexorable for that unfortunate lady: you speak of her with hate—with vindictive antipathy. It is cruel—she cannot help being mad."

Today the United States celebrates a white boy who lay with a woman, the latter decreed property by the country which elected him leader, and owned their children as monetary goods thereafter.

'Some of the antipsychotic drugs we use they were on to hundreds of years ago.'
'Really? Like what, for example, I mean what drugs?'
'Reserpine is one I know of.'
'I didn't know that,' says Adrian.
'No, well,' says Ileana in a voice that says she is not surprised. 'We call them witch doctors.'

Every time I hear someone calling my generation narcissistic, I'm going to bring up the fact that a bunch of Europeans way back when invented race, and even further back a bunch dudebros equated woman with a defective man. Not to mention colonialism and its enforcement of Christianity and English. Congratulations, male WASPs. You now see yourself everywhere.