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October 13, 2012

Quote – Wild Beauty

“These denizens of the modern have cleared and clipped the bushes as through natural, wild beauty is repugnant. What a society! What a mockery.” -Nancy Kilpatrick – Berserker (in Vampyric Variations)

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October 11, 2012

Quote – Humans are as Alien to One Another as to an “Alien” Species

“We are strange creatures, we are humans. We are often as alien to one another as we are to an ‘alien’ species. With whom are we to relate?” – Terence M. Green – The Woman Who Is The Midnight Wind (In Tesseracts)

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October 9, 2012

Quote – Changed By Narrative

“Pick up the threads of your narrative and return to weaving your life again… move back out into the world. Change it and be changed by it.” -Alette J. Willis – Thought and Memory (in Tesseracts Nine. Edge, Calgary, 2005)

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October 7, 2012

Quote – Everyone Wants to be the Hero of Their Own Story

“Everyone wants to be the hero of their own story, but there’s not enough room for them all, so they fester from bitter self-righteousness.” -E.L. Chen – Fin-de-siecle (in Tesseracts Nine. Edge, Calgary, 2005)

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October 5, 2012

Quote – Things Exist Because We Believe Them To Exist

“The world as we have it is here mostly because of habit. We’ve all agreed that certain things exist – we’re taught as impressionable infants that this is a table and this is what it looks like, that’s a tree out the window there, a dog looks and sounds just so. At the same time we’re informed that Goon and...

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September 28, 2012

Quote – Body Seems Strange.

“My proper body is strange to me. Everything about Home feels a single degree off centre. The universe seems odd. Even the organs of perception feel alien. The burrows of Home have a strangeness about them.” -Gary Eikenberry – Anthropology 101 (In Tesseracts)

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September 27, 2012

Quote – Humour Can Humanize

“Humour can humanize like nothing else, except perhaps death.” -Nalo Hopkinson – Final Thoughts (in Tesseracts Nine. Edge, Calgary, 2005)

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September 24, 2012

Quote – Unusual Another Way of Saying Special

“To me, strange is just another way of saying unusual. And unusual is just another way of saying special” -Drew Hayden Taylor – The Night Wanderer

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September 22, 2012

Quote – Approached from the Side

“Some things can only be approached from the side. Secretively. Peripherally.” -Charles de Lint – The Stone Drum In The Very Best of Charles de Lint.

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September 20, 2012

Quote – Giants Have Feelings Too!!!

“That giant that wants to kill you, at home in his cave or barrow – wherever the poor, damned thing is forced to live now – probably has a mate, and squalling little giant children, waiting for papa to come home with the meat. When you kill that giant, do you think of them? No, you think, I’m glad to...

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