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A revolution always seems, in retrospect, like an eruption: a massive upheaval that overturns everything, flips the tables, shatters the sky, fractures the earth. No one talks about how long a revolution takes or how boring it can be, how it can slowly chew time with grinding teeth before gulping it down all at once.
— Mar 12, 2026 04:30PM
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Their marriage had ceased to be conjugal; his body did not conjugate hers, there was no grammar between them.
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Every family is a war but some are more civil than others.
— Mar 11, 2026 09:37AM
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'Don't do anything stupid. It's just a (disgusting) boy!!!!!'
[evergreen advice]
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Now, as her baby wept for hunger and as she herself wept distractedly -- weeping was just what she did now, who she was -- Matha felt that dawning shock that comes when you look at yourself and see a person you once might have pitied.
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What was the name of that poem again? The title bit the bait, but she could not reel it in. It thrashed under the surface of her mind.
[damn, that's a killer line]
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[damn, that's a killer line]
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I do seem plagued by the unpunishable crimes of others.
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