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… I waited (with a poise specific to the privately insane) …
Lauren Rothery, from Television
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Responding so weakly to the news, Ariah surprised us all. At first we were relieved, and then concerned.
‘This isn’t normal for Mom.’
'Well. Maybe it means—’
Maybe what? We had no idea.
Joyce Carol Oates, from The Falls
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‘He has his reasons, but no one knows what they are.’
Joyce Carol Oates, from The Falls
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Hi! I’m not sure what this is supposed to mean - du can mean any of a number of things, especially without sign numbers. Is this “the person doesn’t go?” Or maybe a phrase - “a person not going” or (with du7) “an unsuitable/imperfect person”? If this is my first Sumerian anon hate I want to make sure I understand it right!
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Words I Can Make Out of My Name, a poem
You were not built to carry the weight of this world, said God.And yet. It is upon you; you feel it heavier each day.
Your prayers have been shouted & whispered, in communion& all alone. There are four thousand languages in this world,God said. Don’t you think I can speak every one? Neverbe afraid to grieve; to cry; to pound the ground; to bang a drumon a beach somewhere; to dance before the…
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If there is something that somehow deserves the label ‘god’ it is the universe itself. But not in the petty egocentric way humans use it.
The scale of the universe is infinite, and it deserves a reverence we can only strive to achieve.
To imagine it to be so narrow and cruel as religions would have us believe would be a true insult, but the universe shall remain as indifferent as it is inscrutable.
-Dr. L. Sunshine
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Okay but I did hear someone complain that there would have been far less story in Murtagh if he had just done the smart thing and gone to his friends with his concerns first. And that’s not really a valid criticism—you might as well say “there wouldn’t be a story here if there wasn’t a plot!” Well, duh. Story is plot and plot is conflict and I’m pretty sure Murtagh’s mistakes were very intentional plot points in his story, which isn’t just about his conflict with Bachel (and a very large fish). He’s in conflict with himself. He’s processing grief and trauma. He’s experiencing freedom from controlling influences for the first time in his life. He’s trying to figure out if he can come back from the things he regrets, if he can be a hero and an asset to the people he cares about, instead of a threat and a burden. Of course he tries to go it alone. And yes, it’s a big mistake, and he realizes this, and then he makes more friends who (and this is not a coincidence) reconnect him to old friends when he needs them. And in the process he discovers that they, too, need him, which answers the questions that prompted his story in the first place. There are plenty of (fish) things you can critique about this book, but Murtagh making mistakes and learning from them isn’t one of them.
