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Death to all
"I was born into a religious community in the heart of the Old Continent,’ I said. ‘But I realised in my youth that unless a person gives birth to their own system, they will become enslaved by another’s."
Adam Roberts - "Salt"
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Almost every developing species had a creation myth buried somewhere in its past, even if by the time they’d become space-faring it was no more than a quaint and dusty irrelevance (though, granted, some were downright embarrassing). Talking utter drivel about thunderclouds having sex with the sun, lonely old sadists inventing something to amuse ( Read more... ) -
Enslaved - Singular
Born into oblivion ( Read more... ) -
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Again, I was forced to laugh and again my laughter was sincere. Four years earlier, in autumn of 1865, a mob of Jamaican blacks had attacked the Court House in Morant Bay. Our governor there, Eyre, had overseen 439 of those blacks being shot or hanged and another 600 flogged. Some of our more deluded liberals had opposed Governor Eyre’s behaviour, ( Read more... ) -
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There is a saying that some foolish people believe: what does not kill you makes you stronger. I know for a fact, having seen the evidence - indeed, often enough having been the cause of it - that what does not kill you can leave you maimed. Or crippled, or begging for death or in one of those ghastly twilights experienced - and one has to hope ( Read more... ) -
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I do love the ladies, but I wouldn’t want to be totally beholden to one of them, would I? True love and wanting kids and settling down and all that, it’s fine for most people and it makes the world go round and all like my old man said, but apart from the fact no it doesn’t, it’s gravity that does that, well, all right maybe it does make the world ( Read more... ) -
october rust
Even though I still miss your lips
You're about as real as your tits
/type o negative
ps. just felt like posting this. it's autumn here at last. rains and clouds and october rust. so there.... -
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Pleasure is Nature's test, her sign of approval. When we're happy we're always good, but when we are good we are not always happy ( Read more... ) -
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Never marry at all, Dorian. Men marry because they are tired; women, because they are curious; both are dissapointed ( Read more... ) -
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All art is quite useless.
Oscar Wilde.