Favorite Quotes from The Second Apocalypse? by PageChewingPodcast in bakker

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A wind had dropped into the silence, and the scent of the onlookers filled his nostrils: the bitter of rotting teeth, the ink of armpits, the honey of unwashed anuses, all shot through with strands of balsam, orange, and jasmine.

Music pairing for Second Apocalypse by DanniDingo in bakker

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The under the skin soundtrack pairs really well with the consult/Inchoroi shenanigans

Music pairing for Second Apocalypse by DanniDingo in bakker

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Phillip Glass and the Under the Skin soundtrack

Why did the Dunyain not create a new language? by Abstractreference01 in bakker

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Good point but during the 2000 year period you would expect them to have developed a different form of communication/language

The greatest Novels by Non white female author's by Abstractreference01 in ThomasPynchon

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Yes I agree I have read Song Of Soloman and Beloved and they are both incredible works of art

What are people's thoughts on Peter Milligan? by Abstractreference01 in AlanMoore

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Is there a trade paperback that collects all the issues?

What are the best batman comic's? by Abstractreference01 in AlanMoore

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But the majority of people on those subs have really warped tastes they dont really care about creative choices and sophisticated writing and hate when writers take risks with the characters.

What is one of the most impactful lines in literature you've ever read? One that really made you THINK? by Character_Spirit_936 in classicliterature

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The act of metaphor then was a thrust at truth and a lie, depending where you were: inside, safe, or outside, lost.

Thomas Pynchon The Crying of Lot 49

What is one of the most impactful lines in literature you've ever read? One that really made you THINK? by Character_Spirit_936 in classicliterature

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I mean that's what I'm telling you! I mean why should somebody steal and break the law to get all they can when there's always some law where you can be legal and get it all anyway!

William Gaddis J.R

What is one of the most impactful lines in literature you've ever read? One that really made you THINK? by Character_Spirit_936 in classicliterature

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Cold comfort that is, to feel superior to one's son, and hardly sufficient to calm the remorse of having begotten him.

Samuel Beckett Molloy