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River Woman, River Demon by Jennifer Givhan
When Eva’s husband is arrested for the murder of a friend, she must confront her murky past and embrace her …
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When Eva’s husband is arrested for the murder of a friend, she must confront her murky past and embrace her …
It is hard to find words for this book and how many emotions I've experienced in reading through this series so far. The dystopian world is so vivid and alive, the characters so real, it's been an incredible journey as they do from despair to war to uncertainty and back around. But always rising, always looking to a better future. Per aspera, ad astra!
I can't wait to read the next one!
Born a lowly Red in the mines of Mars, Darrow lost his beloved wife to the treacherous Gold overlords. Vowing …
Content warning chapter 25-ish
I can't believe this woman is allowing herself to cheat on her husband while he's in JAIL. And completely ignoring her children, even knowing that they KNOW what she's doing, and how much having their father in jail is affecting them. I understand that you're struggling, but get a grip! Jeeeeeeez
Read a passage by Thomas Jefferson today from his "Notes on the State of Virginia"
Racist. Vile. Disgusting.
I've coined the word "hackass" to describe Thomas Jefferson, and regret ever admiring him as a contributor to the declaration of independence
Nonetheless, he posits the parallel existence of what he calls “memes”—units of cultural transmission or units of imitation—that, like genes, are “replicators.”
But unlike genetic transmission, when memes are transmitted, they always change, for they are subject to “continuous mutation, and also to blending”, in part to adapt for survival in the “meme pool."
— A Theory of Adaptation by Linda Hutcheon (Page 32)
In this passage, she is referring to the 1976 book on Darwinian theory by Richard Dawkins, "The Selfish Gene"
Is this where the word "meme" was born??
One night the landlord came by to fix the leak in the bathroom pipe and was surprised to find Minnie, Rupert and Onna, Sarah and Elsie, Shar and Dar all singing around the drum next to the big stove in the kitchen and even a baby named Lester who smiled waving a big greasy piece of dried fish.
He was disturbed he went to court to evict them he said the house was designed for single-family occupancy which surprised the family because that's what they thought they were
— When the Light of the World Was Subdued, Our Songs Came Through by Joy Harjo, LeAnne Howe, Jennifer Elise Foerster (Page 219)
From the poem: "The Housing Poem" by Dian Million
Treebeard is Fangorn, the guardian of the forest; he is the oldest of the Ents, the oldest living thing that still walks beneath the Sun upon this Middle-earth.
— The Hobbit and the Lord of the Rings (the Hobbit / the Fellowship of the Ring / the Two Towers / the by J.R.R. Tolkien (Page 89)
We guard the spot where steeples rise In stately grandeur to the skies; We mark the place where altars shine, As hallow'd, sainted, and divine; And just as sacred should we hold The turf, where peasants blithe and bold, Can plant their footsteps day or night, In free, unquestioned, native right.
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But every English heart will tell It loves an "English common" well; And curse the hard and griping hand That wrests away such "hallow'd" land; That shuts the green waste, fresh and wild; From poor man's beast and poor man's child!
— Poems by Eliza Cook (Page 180)
From the poem "Stanzas" which argues for the preservation of public green spaces where people and animals can gather and spend time together.
Hawai'i '89
The way it is now few streams still flow through lo'i kalo to the sea. Most of the water where we live runs in ditches alongside the graves of Chinese bones where the same crop has burned in the fields for the last one hundred years.
On another island, a friend whose father was born in a pili grass hale in Kahakuloa, bought a house on a concrete pad in Hawai'i Kai. For two hundred thousand he got window frames out of joint and towel racks hung crooked on the walls.
He's one of the lucky ones. People are sleeping in cars or rolled up in mats on beaches, while the lū'au show hostess invites the roomful of visitors to step back in time to when gods and goddesses walked the earth. I wonder what she's talking about.
All night, Kānehekili flashes in the sky and Moanonuikalehua changes from a beautiful woman into a lehua tree at the sound of the pahu.
It's true that the man who swam with the sharks and kept them away from the nets full of fish by feeding them limu kala is gone, but we're still here like the fragrant white koki'o blooming on the long branch like the hairy leafed nehe clinging to the dry pu'u like the moon high over Ha'ikū lighting the way home.
— When the Light of the World Was Subdued, Our Songs Came Through by Joy Harjo, LeAnne Howe, Jennifer Elise Foerster (Page 210)
Hawai'i '89, by Dana Naone Hall, an activist who founded Hui Alanui o Mākena, an organization that successfully prevented the destruction of the Pi'ilani Trail, a part of the road that once encircled Maui.
The definition of alt-right in the essay "Dark Jesters Hiding in Plain Sight: Hoaxes, Hacks, Pranks, and Polymorphic Simulations" by David Garcia is... interesting.
"an unholy alliance connecting 'teenage gamers, pseudonymous swastika-posting anime lovers, ironic South Park conservatives, anti-feminist pranksters, nerdish harassers and meme-making trolls whose dark humour and love of transgression for its own sake' have been hijacked by actual white-segregationist neo-Naxis, who used the mischievous culture of lulz as cover to propel their ambitious political program all the way to the White House."
Hard to think of it just as a "culture of lulz" when it's so much more complicated.