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| 16ac872 | Like so much in Atlanta, Stone Mountain had become a bland and inoffensive consumable: the Confederacy as hood ornament. Not for the first time, though more deeply than ever before, I felt a twinge of affinity for the neo-Confederates I'd met in my travels. Better to remember Dixie and debate its philosophy than to have its largest shrine hijacked for Coca-Cola ads and MTV songs. | Tony Horwitz | ||
| 369c9c6 | I don't know what you will say to me for introducing you into the privacy of Mr. and Mrs. Jenkins's bed-chamber, but it is really necessary to do so. We cannot very well get on without it. | Mrs. Henry Wood | ||
| 0f46c1e | What cough do you call it?" went on Roland Yorke--you may have guessed he was the speaker. "A churchyard cough?" "Well, I don't know, sir," said Jenkins. "It has been called that, before now. I dare say it will be the end of me at last." "Cool!" remarked Roland. "Cooler than I should be, if I had a cough, or any plague of the sort, that was likely to be my end. Does it trouble your mind, Jenkins?" | Mrs. Henry Wood | ||
| 80ee7c5 | the headline death and disaster atop the latest dispatch from Homestead. "Capital and labor have met once more on a bloody field," the article stated. "Never in the history of strikes and riots, since the railroad riots of 1877, have there been so many lives sacrificed, and such fighting between the representatives of the two great social divisions." Members of the Pennsylvania National Guard were on their way to restore order, the dispatch.. | James McGrath Morris | ||
| 6e81714 | out of informal learning communities if they fail to meet our needs; we enjoy no such mobility in our relations to formal education. Affinity spaces are also highly generative environments from which new aesthetic experiments and innovations emerge. A 2005 report on The Future of Independent Media argued that this kind of grassroots creativity was an important engine of cultural transformation: The media landscape will be reshaped by the bo.. | Henry Jenkins | ||
| b5cb909 | Before he followed her, Hank rushed to the back and | J.E. Bright | ||
| b84e6a4 | It was exciting at first... Then it became routine. I guess everything does, even if it's dangerous. | Peter Mayle | ||
| cb50aab | Don't ever make the mistake of thinking you can change a man. You will only waste your time. | Anna Adams | ||
| 9662b2f | I'd rather have sung one of Elektra's solos. I can relate to her anger." "You" | Anna Adams | ||
| b326c74 | Do you ever wonder how we all got here? On Earth, I mean. Forget the song and dance about Adam and Eve, which I know is a load of crap. My father likes the myth of the Pawnee Indians, who say that the star deities populated the world: Evening Star and Morning Star hooked up and gave birth to the first female. The first boy came from the Sun and the Moon. Humans rode in on the back of a tornado. Mr. Hume, my science teacher, taught us about .. | anna-fitzgerald choanoflagellates genesis mistakes pawnee-myth | Jodi Picoult | |
| 03f4d98 | summer glory had taken over the city and | Anna Adams | ||
| b4e00fa | Lindsey turned to Maude and said sweetly, "I guess I'll be seeing you in Ms. Tragent's class this evening since Jazmine's Dad managed to get you in. She usually takes nothing but the best, but seeing as you're James Baldwin's charity case, she couldn't say no to the poor, little French orphan he's taken in, could she?" Maude's face grew hot with anger. "You know what? Nobody's even heard of the name Lindsey Linton in France. So I guess Mrs... | Anna Adams | ||
| fe28f10 | writer | Christine Rimmer | ||
| 4a86eb0 | Istedigi zaman gozyaslarini icine akitip gulumseyebilme yetenegine sahip olmustu.Bu yuzden de gozyaslarinin gercek olup olmadigini o da anlamiyordu. Oscar'li bir oyuncu gibiydi. | oscar sins sloth smile tears | Robin Wasserman | |
| 32d3d5b | There had to be consequences. Lacey was always right about that. Maybe freaks stayed freaks and losers stayed losers, maybe sad and weak was forever, but villains only stayed villains until someone stopped them. | villains | Robin Wasserman | |
| 0ba6421 | See them in their golden hour, a flood of girls high on the ecstasy of the final bell, tumbling onto the city bus, all gawky limbs and Wonderbra cleavage, chewed nails picking at eruptive zits, lips nibbling and eyes scrunching in a doomed attempt not to cry. Girls with plaid skirts tugged unfathomably high above the knee, girls seizing the motion of the bus to throw themselves bodily into their objects of affection. | Robin Wasserman | ||
| 137892d | The doctor's voice was cold. "There's nothing to put back. There's no body to go back to. The body of Lia Kahn is dead. Be grateful you didn't die with it." | Robin Wasserman | ||
| 1bc1dbe | hacking in its pure form stretched back centuries. It wasn't restricted to a single medium. It was more than a methodology. It was an ethos. | hacking | Robin Wasserman | |
| 0ee182a | They wondered at the consequences of teaching a girl she was weak instead of warning her she was strong. | girls | Robin Wasserman | |
| c1cc966 | Origin stories are irrelevant. Nothing matters less than how you were born. What matters is how you die, and how you live. We live for each other, so anything that got us to that point must have been right. | Robin Wasserman | ||
| 1f6ac3c | Pick a pair of them, lost in each other, a matched set like a vision out of the past. Nobody special, two nobodies. Except that together, they're radioactive; together, they glow. | Robin Wasserman | ||
| 1ef1509 | I knew we were better together than we were alone, and better still than everyone else, and that was enough. | Robin Wasserman | ||
| 48c54b9 | According to Lacey I had the lyrics all wrong. I sang like it sounded to me, because those words sounded right: I loved you I'm not going back I killed you I'm not going back. | nirvana | Robin Wasserman | |
| df9c10e | In one way, what I saw in those mirrors was the self trapped inside the self, forever. But in another way, the self in the mirror was opening out, in an infinite unfurling. I am the one whose drive is being thwarted. And I am the one who is thwarting it. | self | Alison Bechdel | |
| b49265c | Perhaps I identify too well with my father's illicit awe. A trace of this seems caught in the photo, just as a trace of Roy has been caught on the light-sensitive paper...It's a curiously ineffectual attempt at censorship. Why cross out the year and not the month? Why, for that matter, leave the photo in the envelope at all? In an act of prestidigitation typical of the way my father juggled his public appearance and private reality, the evi.. | Alison Bechdel | ||
| 603d293 | The Bechdel-Wallace test is a similarly simple device, created by the cartoonist Alison Bechdel and her friend Liz Wallace, for evaluating whether movies and television shows perpetuate gender inequity. Does a film have at least two named women in it, talking to each other, about something other than a man? A depressingly large number of films and shows fail the test. But it does more than scold. It suggests an alternate reality--an achieva.. | Eric Liu | ||
| 041b6a0 | The idea that our unconscious possesses such sure aim excited me. I became more attuned to my own erroneously carried out actions. | Alison Bechdel | ||
| 199cbd6 | Alice Miller writes that the child who suppresses his own feelings in order to accomodate a parent has been, in a sense, abandoned. 'Later, when these feelings of being deserted begin to emerge in the analysis of the adult, they are accompanied by such intensity of pain and despair that it is quite clear that these people could not have survived so much pain. That would only have been possible in an empathic, attentive environment, and this.. | mothers | Alison Bechdel | |
| 617996d | did that require such a leap of the imagination? Perhaps affectation can be so thoroughgoing, so authentic in its details, that it stops being pretense... and becomes, for all practical purposes, real. | Alison Bechdel | ||
| aed2b97 | Maybe the mother manages to be a mirror only part of the time. In such 'tantalizing' cases, some babies learn to withdraw their own needs when the mother's are evident. | mirror mothers | Alison Bechdel | |
| 8128b6f | I guess I felt like I'd failed her [by throwing up]. She had so many demands on her...The one thing she needed from me was that I not need anything from her [Bechdel's mother]. | mothers needs | Alison Bechdel | |
| 97ab231 | But, Jocelyn, if I really were all those things [good, kind, talented, hard working, open to change, and adorable]... ...I would die.' I wasn't sure what I meant by this, but it suddenly struck me as the truth. 'Because you'd rather die than feel anger at your mother for not giving you what you needed? | mothers needs | Alison Bechdel | |
| 53aaba6 | I put the odds on a psychic deathmatch between Attila the Hun and Virginia Woolf at fifty-fifty. | are-you-my-mother attila-the-hun deathmatch humor virginia-woolf | Alison Bechdel | |
| b417018 | It was decided to leave her where she lay. She lies there | Ian W. Toll | ||
| 4518e31 | Throughout the Pacific, one could find an illicit trade in "torpedo juice," the high-proof fuel used in torpedoes. Beer was usually rationed at two cans a week. When a larger quantity of beer was obtained by backhanded means, it could be chilled by taking it to high altitude for thirty minutes. Pilots would provide that service in exchange for a share of the spoils." | Ian W. Toll | ||
| 97f75bf | Lieutenant (jg) Ralph Hanks, an Iowa pig farmer before the war, became an "ace in a day" by shooting down five Zeros in a single skirmish. In a fifteen-minute air engagement, his throttle never left the firewall and his Hellcat surpassed 400 knots in a diving attack. Hanks had to stand on his rudder pedals and use his entire upper-body strength to keep his stick under control. Intense g-forces caused him to black out several times. This fir.. | Ian W. Toll | ||
| 362c343 | As is almost always the case with the Army, and often with the Marines, it was very difficult to get enough men to unload boats, even slowly," he told Spruance on November 30. "As soon as the troops debarked from the LSTs and APs, they simply evaporated. Boats would lie at the pier for hours on end without a pound moving, while those garrison troops were out sightseeing." | Ian W. Toll | ||
| f479d36 | Marine Captain Bankson T. Holcomb, Jr., a Japanese-language officer detached from Pearl Harbor's codebreaking unit, picked up a transmission by a Japanese patrol pilot (probably the same one that had been picked up by the carrier's radar). The aircraft had reached the end of its patrol route and the pilot had "nothing to report." | Ian W. Toll | ||
| f9dfc5c | A jolt, a white flash, a thunderclap, and the Hayate was torn apart--her bow floated one way, her stern the other, each section bobbing pitifully on the sea, and then both quickly sank, taking 168 men down with them. The battery's crew let out a full-throated cheer. "Knock it off, you bastards, and get back on the guns!" bellowed Platoon Sergeant Henry Bedell. "What do you think this is, a ball game?" | Ian W. Toll | ||
| 5254851 | The french Captain tells me, I have caused a War with France," Truxtun wrote Stoddert. "If so I am glad of it, for I detest Things being done by Halves." The" | Ian W. Toll | ||
| fd3ef67 | Without a high flux of carbon and energy that is physically channelled over inorganic catalysts, there is no possibility of evolving cells. I would rate this as a necessity anywhere in the universe: given the requirement for carbon chemistry that we discussed in the last chapter, thermodynamics dictates a continuous flow of carbon and energy over natural catalysts. Discounting special pleading, that rules out almost all environments that ha.. | Nick Lane | ||
| df8b919 | All complex life shares an astonishing catalogue of elaborate traits, from sex to cell suicide to senescence, none of which is seen in a comparable form in bacteria. | Nick Lane | ||
| 37dc843 | responses to my questions fell into two broad categories, each associated (at least in my mind) with one of two people, Americans who lived in the twentieth century. | Charles C. Mann | ||
| 8e0526e | All life on our planet is related, and the readout of letters in DNA shows exactly how. By comparing DNA sequences, we can compute statistically how closely related we are to anything, from monkeys to marsupials, to reptiles, amphibians, fish, insects, crustaceans, worms, plants, protozoa, bacteria-you name it. | Nick Lane |