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January 9, 2014

Quote – Rebuilding the Lost

“I have devoted my life to recovering the irrecoverable and rebuilding what was lost, searching out its ghosts and giving them flesh within monographs and articles.” -Helen Marshall Hair Side, Flesh Side (ChiZine, 2012)

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November 19, 2013

Quote – Surface Dwelling and Energy into Transforming World into Unnatural Objects

“Perhaps the vulnerability of surface dwelling explains their constant, frenetic activity and their tendency to expend tremendous amounts of energy transforming the matter of their world into perversely unnatural objects.” -Gary Eikenberry – Anthropology 101 (in Tesseracts)

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October 31, 2013

Quote – Blank Page With No Boundaries to Transgress

“Those who haven’t been here, and seen it, simply cannot imagine the endless expanse of white. It is stark and harsh as a blank page, or a map with no borders, no boundaries. No sense of right or wrong. In this blighted snowscape, anything is possible. Here you are free to cross over, to transgress. It is a map of...

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October 21, 2013

Quote – Loneliness into Perverse Pride

“My loneliness turned itself inside out and I grew myself a kind of perverse pride.” -Phyllis Gotlieb – Tauf Aleph (In Tesseracts)

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October 17, 2013

Quote – Part Spirit, Part Flesh

“She felt both light and heavy, part spirit, part flesh.” -Nalo Hopkinson – Brown Girl in the Ring. (Grand Central Publishing, New York, 1998)  

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October 11, 2013

Quote – Money Doesn’t Matter Enough to Kill Ourselves Over

“Work and money still matter, but not enough to kill ourselves over; not when so many things are waiting to do it for us.” -Catherine MacLeod – Hydden (in Tesseracts 14: Strange Canadian Stories)

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October 9, 2013

Quote – Need Collective Stories

“People are losing touch with themselves and with each other. They need stories because they really are the only thing that brings us together. Gossip, anecdotes, jokes, stories – these are the things that we used to exchange with each other. It kept the lines of communication open, let us touch each other on a regular basis.”             -Charles de...

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September 11, 2013

Quote – Coping Out Of Responsibility

“I hate it. It’s like there’s no human beings in the chain of responsibility, just things-that-happen. It’s the ultimate cop-out. The system did it. The company did it. The government did it. What about the person who pulls the trigger?” -Cory Doctorow – Homeland (Tor, 2013)

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September 9, 2013

Quote – Luck is Eerie

“I hated relying on luck. When it worked, it made me feel so damned eerie.” -James Alan Gardner – Expendable (Avon, 1997)

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September 7, 2013

Quote – Letting Light In

“A pinprick can let out life’s blood, or let in the light of the world.” -Kate Riedel, “Bells of Aberdovey”, OnSpec # 92 Vol. 25, No 1.

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