X-Git-Url: http://unremediatedgender.space/source?a=blobdiff_plain;f=notes%2Fepigraph_quotes.md;h=b7d99f46dc88407af50073347d610b5e762137f2;hb=8d0a2be60ccef09bebc12b468cc88500891bb229;hp=fb046ff9efd0e971fe8b4448912de25aa0d6f9de;hpb=4cf4cbf02f18ede6de5917809c05780013d88b77;p=Ultimately_Untrue_Thought.git diff --git a/notes/epigraph_quotes.md b/notes/epigraph_quotes.md index fb046ff..b7d99f4 100644 --- a/notes/epigraph_quotes.md +++ b/notes/epigraph_quotes.md @@ -14,12 +14,7 @@ looking for a use— > > —[probably apocryphal](http://quoteinvestigator.com/2011/02/09/darwinism-hope-pray/) reaction to Darwin's theory of natural selection -(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 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 + > What is the most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine. > @@ -233,14 +228,6 @@ http://www.orwell.ru/library/essays/politics/english/e_polit/ > > —old Soviet joke (paraphrased) -> Don't think. -> If you think, then don't speak. -> If you think and speak, then don't write. -> If you think, speak, and write, then don't sign. -> If you think, speak, write, and sign, then don't be surprised. -> -> —Soviet proverb - https://xkcd.com/1942/ > A woman came up to me and said @@ -377,3 +364,7 @@ https://xkcd.com/1942/ > When truth is buried underground it grows, it chokes, it gathers such an explosive force that on the day it bursts out, it blows up everything with it. > > –Emile Zola + +> And Durham—the software puppet, the lifeless shell animated by a being from another plane—looked him in the eye and said, "You have to let me show you what you are." +> +> —_Permutation City_ by Greg Egan