X-Git-Url: http://unremediatedgender.space/source?p=Ultimately_Untrue_Thought.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=epigraph_quotes.md;h=f7a646294b4f78f117b5b2ea87a215afaa7d03df;hp=6f2d37f391dab888aba60560971e33e6cdc2ae23;hb=b5c11aa4f6f86b6f5d9eb16509c2e302397c2f25;hpb=9e23e8612a79fd6f9a5471060466857e63ca9bd0 diff --git a/epigraph_quotes.md b/epigraph_quotes.md index 6f2d37f..f7a6462 100644 --- a/epigraph_quotes.md +++ b/epigraph_quotes.md @@ -101,6 +101,7 @@ > —"Parents Are People", _Free to Be You and Me_ > "—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." > > —"Cocoon" by Greg Egan @@ -141,3 +142,9 @@ > Can learn to be like you, too > > —"I Wanna Be Like You", _The Jungle Book_ + +> 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