X-Git-Url: http://unremediatedgender.space/source?a=blobdiff_plain;f=notes%2Fepigraph_quotes.md;h=ae7808b1910a1ba5a089057f05d94ac079788178;hb=6deaff0229b56b186cf8948f721038d8da443fdc;hp=5ebb742f3604ec1bf48bee91eb315ffc1d5badc4;hpb=1737d7d4488e56dfcd45d40dbed31f32c3575bdd;p=Ultimately_Untrue_Thought.git diff --git a/notes/epigraph_quotes.md b/notes/epigraph_quotes.md index 5ebb742..ae7808b 100644 --- a/notes/epigraph_quotes.md +++ b/notes/epigraph_quotes.md @@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ looking for a use— (This is Worth a Fight?) > "—but if one hundred thousand straights can turn up, to show their support for the gay community, why can't you?" > -> I said wearily, "Because every time I hear the word _community_, I know I'm being manipulated. If there is such a thing as _the gay community_, I'm certainly not a part of it. As it ahppens, I don't want to spend my life watching _gay and lesbian_ television channels, using _gay and lesbian_ new systems ... or going to _gay and lesbian_ street parades. It's all so ... proprietary. You'd think there was a multinational corporation who had the franchise rights on homosexuality. ANd if you don't _market the product_ their way, you're some kind of second-class, inferior, bootleg, unauthorized queer." +> I said wearily, "Because every time I hear the word _community_, I know I'm being manipulated. If there is such a thing as _the gay community_, I'm certainly not a part of it. As it happens, I don't want to spend my life watching _gay and lesbian_ television channels, using _gay and lesbian_ new systems ... or going to _gay and lesbian_ street parades. It's all so ... proprietary. You'd think there was a multinational corporation who had the franchise rights on homosexuality. And if you don't _market the product_ their way, you're some kind of second-class, inferior, bootleg, unauthorized queer." > > —"Cocoon" by Greg Egan @@ -38,14 +38,9 @@ looking for a use— > > —Steven Goldberg, _Why Men Rule: A Theory of Male Dominance_ ----- +quote that _Blindsight_ passage about an evil god setting males and females against each other -(An Infovist's Advisory) -> I said, "The truth is whatever you can get away with." -> -> "No, that's journalism. The truth is whatever you can't escape." -> -> —_Distress_ by Greg Egan +---- (Simple Models Plus Noise Are Better ...) > The study of psychology is a violation of my privacy. @@ -61,16 +56,6 @@ looking for a use— > > —_Portal_ end credits song -(Review of Nevada) -> You sound so innocent -> All full of good intent -> You swear you know best -> But you expect me to -> Jump up on board with you -> And ride off into your delusional sunset -> -> —"King of Anything" by Sara Bareilles - (Collective Guilt, Collective Shame) > "My taxon, right or wrong; if right, to be kept right; and if wrong, to be set right." > @@ -169,6 +154,10 @@ Moliere on "dormative virtue" > > —"The One That Got Away" by Katy Perry +> He once said, "None of the other Rationals I've ever met have anything but an empty-head for an Emotional. I'm lucky." She had said, "But the other Rationals seem to like empty-heads. Why are you different from them, Odeen?" Odeen did not deny that the other Rationals liked empty-heads. He just said, "I've never figured it out and I don't think it's important that I do. I'm pleased with you and I'm pleased that I'm pleased." +> +> —_The Gods Themselves_ by Isaac Asimov + ---- Less obviously fitting— @@ -235,3 +224,10 @@ Less obviously fitting— > —"Right There in Front of Me", _My Little Pony Equestria Girls: Friendship Games_ http://www.orwell.ru/library/essays/politics/english/e_polit/ + +> A woman came up to me and said +> "I'd like to poison your mind +> With wrong ideas that appeal to you +> Though I am not unkind" +> +> —"Whistling in the Dark" by They Might Be Giants \ No newline at end of file