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Beasts bounding through time. Van Gogh writing his brother for paints Hemingway testing his shotgun Celine going broke as a doctor of medicine the impossibility of being human Villon expelled from Paris for being a thief Faulkner drunk in the gutters of his town the impossibility of being human Burroughs killing his wife with a gun Mailer stabbing his the impossibility of being human Maupassant going mad in a rowboat Dostoevsky lined up against a wall to be shot Crane off the back of a boat into the propeller the impossibility Sylvia with her head in the oven like a baked potato Harry Crosby leaping into that Black Sun Lorca murdered in the road by the Spanish troops the impossibility Artaud sitting on a madhouse bench Chatterton drinking rat poison Shakespeare a plagiarist Beethoven with a horn stuck into his head against deafness the impossibility the impossibility Nietzsche gone totally mad the impossibility of being human all too human this breathing in and out out and in these punks these cowards these champions these mad dogs of glory moving this little bit of light toward us impossibly
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beatiful
bukowski
champions
cowards
creatures
dog
glory
mad
soul
truth
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Charles Bukowski |
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"Well," Peter Van Houten said, extending his hand to me. "It is at any rate a pleasure to meet such ontologically improbable creatures." I shook his swollen hand, and then he shook hands with Augustus. I was wondering what ontologically meant. Regardless, I liked it. Augustus and I were together in the Improbable Creatures Club: us and duck-billed platypuses."
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creatures
hazel
ontological
peter-van-houten
platypus
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John Green |
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0c5d072
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They may not look dangerous, but if angered [bowtruckles] will gouge out human eyes with their fingers, which, as you can see, are very sharp and not at all desirable near the eyeballs.
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creatures
dangerous
eyeballs
gouge
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J.K. Rowling |
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Consider the subtleness of the sea; how its most dreaded creatures glide under water, unapparent for the most part, and treacherously hidden beneath the loveliest tints of azure.
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creatures
fish
sea
whales
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Herman Melville |
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d5fce86
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The world had to change and for some reason the prosperity of men always results in them taking ever more from wild creatures and places.
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animals
beasts
change
creatures
destroy
growth
human
humankind
men
nature
people
prosperity
take
time
wild
world
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Robin Hobb |
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287efd5
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If there really are such creatures in here, it would be the discovery of a lifetime.' 'If there really are such creatures in here,' Sally countered, 'your lifetime might be very short.
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christopher-pike
creatures
discovery
monsters
sally-wilcox
spooksville
the-haunted-cave
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Christopher Pike |