"The green light flashed around the room and she dropped like her husband. The child had not cried all this time. He could stand, clutching the bars of his crib, and he looked up into the intruder's face with a kind of bright interest, perhaps thinking that it was his father who hid beneath the cloak, making more pretty lights, and his mother would ( Read more... )

Your old self is the fuel you will use to burn your old self to the ground. This bonfire will liberate your new self, which has been trapped in a gnarly snarl deep inside your old self. Only at first will you feel freaked out by the flames. Very quickly, a sense of relief and release will predominate. Then, as the new you makes its way to freedom, ( Read more... )

"One is not simply a body, but, in some very key sense, one does one's body and, indeed, one does one's body differently from one's contemporaries and from one's embodied predecessors and successors as well."
Judith Butler - "Performative Acts and Gender Constitution: An Essay in Phenomenology and Feminist Theory" (1988)

"There is no justification for present existence other than its expansion into an indefinitely open future." Simone de Beauvoir - Introduction to The Second Sex (1949)

It is my damn birthday.

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Let's play word association! You write the first word that comes to your head for each of these and then I'll do the same for your answers ( Read more... )

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"You've only to assume that I, too, am a man et nihil humanum...in a word, that I am capable of being attracted and falling in love (which does not depend on our will), then everything can be explained in the most natural manner. The question is, am I a monster, or am I myself a victim? And what if I am a victim? In proposing to the object of my ( Read more... )

Benjamin Marcus is a guy that I know ( Read more... )