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Inaction, Action, Inaction: Political Decay in Ani | RSS.com [He], Napoleon, was only now for the first time announcing it—that the name ‘Animal Farm’ had been abolished. Henceforward the farm was to be known as ‘The Manor …
Are You Human? The Gom Jabbar Test Explained | RSS.com You’ve heard of animals chewing off a leg to escape a trap? That’s an animal kind of trick. A human would remain in the trap, endure the pain, feigning death that he might kill the …
Books Undone But the emptiness has the value and the appearance of plenty. One way of getting is not looking, one way of having is not asking and only believing that the silence I believe to be inside me is the answer to my—to my mystery. Mystery. …
Books Undone Within a year there were fires on the ridges and deranged chanting. […] He thought that in the history of the world it might even be that there was more punishment than crime but he took small comfort from it. This stark quote …
Language Makes Horror Bearable: The Linguistics Behind Tender is The Flesh “His brain warns him that there are words that cover up the world. Words that are convenient, hygienic. Legal.” This is the hidden premise behind a layered …
Scarcity Makes Status: What Dune and Blade Runner Reveal About Prestige My job requires it, he thought, scraping bottom. Prestige. We couldn’t go on with the electric sheep any longer; it sapped my morale. Maybe I can tell her that, he decided. …
