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Ahhh right. A different take on the "Take a walk in my shoes" thing, basically.
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Ahhh right. A different take on the "Take a walk in my shoes" thing, basically.
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The Philosophy of Disenchantment
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Not a single quote but a whole book. Martian Time-Slip by Philip K Dick.
There is a native race on Mars who resemble Africans from earth and are referred to throughout the book as 'Bleekmen niggers'.
Was written in the 60s and maybe there is a political statement im missing. Just seems like an odd but amusing choice by Dick.
Maybe unsurprisingly Wikipedia has no reference at all to use of the naughty n word.
Thank fuck sci fi is still super niche so on the whole gets left alone by the modern woke brigade. I really couldn't deal with these spastics screeching about Dick being a sexist ableist Nazi or something.
There is a native race on Mars who resemble Africans from earth and are referred to throughout the book as 'Bleekmen niggers'.
Was written in the 60s and maybe there is a political statement im missing. Just seems like an odd but amusing choice by Dick.
Maybe unsurprisingly Wikipedia has no reference at all to use of the naughty n word.
Thank fuck sci fi is still super niche so on the whole gets left alone by the modern woke brigade. I really couldn't deal with these spastics screeching about Dick being a sexist ableist Nazi or something.
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"There are no more barriers to cross. All I have in common with the uncontrollable and the insane, the vicious and the evil, all the mayhem I have caused and my utter indifference toward it I have now surpassed. My pain is constant and sharp and I do not hope for a better world for anyone, in fact I want my pain to be inflicted on others. I want no one to escape, but even after admitting this there is no catharsis, my punishment continues to elude me and I gain no deeper knowledge of myself; no new knowledge can be extracted from my telling. This confession has meant nothing."
Bret Easton Ellis, American Psycho.
Bret Easton Ellis, American Psycho.
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"Anyone who is of a thoughtful, philosophical cast of mind will occasionally be struck by the appearance of certain organizing principles of history. The forms these principles seem to take inevitably depends upon one's specific obsession. For a monarchist, history is a struggle of classes of economic civil war. An agriculturalist sees the dynamic of populations, land, and availability of food; a philosopher might speak of the will to power or the will to synthesis; a theologian of the will of God."
"We can each sit and wait to die, from the very day of our births. Those of us who do not do so, choose to ask--and to answer--the two questions that define every conscious creature: What do I want? and What will I do to get it? Which are, finally, only one question: What is my will? Caine teaches us that the answer is always found within our own experience; our lives provide the structure of the question, and a properly phrased question contains its own answer."
"Can't trust a fascist--truth is always your first sacrifice to the welfare of the state“
Blade of Tyshalle, Matthew Woodring Stover
"We can each sit and wait to die, from the very day of our births. Those of us who do not do so, choose to ask--and to answer--the two questions that define every conscious creature: What do I want? and What will I do to get it? Which are, finally, only one question: What is my will? Caine teaches us that the answer is always found within our own experience; our lives provide the structure of the question, and a properly phrased question contains its own answer."
"Can't trust a fascist--truth is always your first sacrifice to the welfare of the state“
Blade of Tyshalle, Matthew Woodring Stover
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"You know what Ed Gein would think about women?"
"Who's Ed Gein?"
"Wisconsin. Serial killer. He would think that half of him would want to take them out on a date, treat them real nice."
"What did the other half of him think?"
"What her head would look like on a stick."
Bonus:
"There is an idea of a Patrick Bateman, some kind of abstraction, but there is no real me, only an entity, something illusory, and though I can hide my cold gaze and you can shake my hand and feel flesh gripping yours and maybe you can even sense our lifestyles are probably comparable: I simply am not there."
Bret Easton Ellis, American Psycho.
"Who's Ed Gein?"
"Wisconsin. Serial killer. He would think that half of him would want to take them out on a date, treat them real nice."
"What did the other half of him think?"
"What her head would look like on a stick."
Bonus:
"There is an idea of a Patrick Bateman, some kind of abstraction, but there is no real me, only an entity, something illusory, and though I can hide my cold gaze and you can shake my hand and feel flesh gripping yours and maybe you can even sense our lifestyles are probably comparable: I simply am not there."
Bret Easton Ellis, American Psycho.
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Wasn't that misquoted? Supposed to be Edmund Kemper?
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Nope, it was Ed Gein. Ed never actually said that and Ted Bundy didn't own a dog named Lassie.
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When you hit your thumb with an 8 pound hammer, its nice to be able to blaspheme. It takes a very strong, special minded atheist to jump up and down, with their their hand clasped under their other armpit and shout "Oh random fluctuations in the space-time continuum!" or "Arrrgh, primitive-and-outmoded concept on a crutch!"
-Pratchett, Discworld: Men at Arms
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I want to shamelessly resurrect this thread.
If in some smothering dreams, you too could pace
Behind the wagon that we flung him in,
And watch the white eyes writhing in his face,
His hanging face, like a devil’s sick of sin;
If you could hear, at every jolt, the blood
Come gargling from the froth-corrupted lungs,
Obscene as cancer, bitter as the cud
Of vile, incurable sores on innocent tongues,—
My friend, you would not tell with such high zest
To children ardent for some desperate glory,
The old Lie: Dulce et decorum est
Pro patria mori.
If in some smothering dreams, you too could pace
Behind the wagon that we flung him in,
And watch the white eyes writhing in his face,
His hanging face, like a devil’s sick of sin;
If you could hear, at every jolt, the blood
Come gargling from the froth-corrupted lungs,
Obscene as cancer, bitter as the cud
Of vile, incurable sores on innocent tongues,—
My friend, you would not tell with such high zest
To children ardent for some desperate glory,
The old Lie: Dulce et decorum est
Pro patria mori.
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One wonders why philip k dick gets a free pass, because sad puppy's and hugo's and such shows it's pretty infected.....
[Little googling later] Oh that's why.
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I can't remember the exact quote right now but early in Stephen King's It the passage about Bill demdbroughs life after leaving Derry in college contained some choice words about how academia is quick to put political agendas into everything we enjoy and anyone who doesn't gets shunned for it.
Like I said when I get off work I'll look up the exact quote unless anyone can back me up on this one.
This was back in 1985 btw
Like I said when I get off work I'll look up the exact quote unless anyone can back me up on this one.
This was back in 1985 btw
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You didn't deliver! How many days has it been!
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"I don't understand this at all I don't understand any of this. Why does a story have to be socio-anything? Politics... Culture... History... Aren't those natural ingredients in any story.... If it's told well? I mean... " He looks around, sees hostile eyes, and realizes dimly that they see this as some sort of attack. Maybe it even is they are thinking, he realizes, that maybe there is sexist death merchant in their midst. "I mean... Can't you guys let a story be a story?
Sorry to keep you waiting, took me forever to find my copy.
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"Parker spent the last night of the revolution in a burned-out Tucson suburb, making love to a thin teenager from New Jersey who explained the finer points of her horoscope between bouts of almost silent weeping that seemed to have nothing at all to do with anything he did or said."
-William Gibson, Fragments of a Hologram Rose
“Look how black the sky is, the writer said. I made it that way.”
-Bret Easton Ellis, Lunar Park
-William Gibson, Fragments of a Hologram Rose
“Look how black the sky is, the writer said. I made it that way.”
-Bret Easton Ellis, Lunar Park
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These two from The Picture of Dorian Gray (among many):
“Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault. Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope. They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only Beauty. There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.”
“There is no such thing as a good influence. Because to influence a person is to give him one's own soul. He does not think his natural thoughts, or burn with his natural passions. His virtures are not real to him. His sins, if there are such thing as sins, are borrowed. He becomes an echo of someone else's music, an actor of a part that has not been written for him.”
“Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault. Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope. They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only Beauty. There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.”
“There is no such thing as a good influence. Because to influence a person is to give him one's own soul. He does not think his natural thoughts, or burn with his natural passions. His virtures are not real to him. His sins, if there are such thing as sins, are borrowed. He becomes an echo of someone else's music, an actor of a part that has not been written for him.”
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Lol I found this funny.
"And when the forbidden months pass, kill the polytheists wherever you find them, take them prisoners, surround them, and wait for them everywhere from the ambushes. But if they repent and pray and pay zakat, then leave their way free. Certainly, Allah is Forgiving, Merciful "
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"To refuse a hearing to an opinion, because they are sure that it is false, is to assume that their certainty is the same thing as absolute certainty. All silencing of discussion is an assumption of infallibility."
-John Stuart Mill, On Liberty
-John Stuart Mill, On Liberty
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“When I use a word,’ Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, ‘it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less.’
’The question is,’ said Alice, ‘whether you can make words mean so many different things.’
’The question is,’ said Humpty Dumpty, ‘which is to be master — that’s all.”
’The question is,’ said Alice, ‘whether you can make words mean so many different things.’
’The question is,’ said Humpty Dumpty, ‘which is to be master — that’s all.”
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The real difficulty that we all have to face in life is not so much the science of cookery as the stupidity of the cooks. And in this little handbook to practical Epicureanism the tyrant of the English kitchen is shown in her proper light. Her entire ignorance of herbs, her passion for extracts and essences, her total inability to make a soup which is anything more than a combination of pepper and gravy, her inveterate habit of sending up bread poultices with pheasants,--all these sins and many others are ruthlessly unmasked by the author. Ruthlessly and rightly. For the British cook is a foolish woman who should be turned for her iniquities into a pillar of salt which she never knows how to use.