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The Minotaur Takes His Own Sweet Time

Book by Steven Sherrill · 5 quotes · The Minotaur, Axis, Birth

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All The Minotaur Axis Birth Bridges Connection Covered Bridge Dusk Egress Gravity Harm Haste Ingress Kitchens Mercy Misspent Want Night Purplish Scapegoat Stars Tectonics

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“If asked the Minotaur might say that he thinks gravity pulls harder at night. That the whole earth, on its wobbly axis, whips quicker through a sunless sky. It sure feels that way. But nobody is going to ask.”

Night Stars Gravity Axis The Minotaur

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“A life as long as the Minotaur's - that half-man half-bull, and fully scapegoat - a life that long doubles back on itself from time to time. Caves in. The minuscule tectonics of being alive, among the wholly human, always unsettling. The world shifts continuously beneath his feet. The Minotaur came from misspent want, from the planked birth canal, came from blood-drenched stone walls, from yellow thread. Belayed by desire, the beast pulled himself along. Pulled himself through centuries, through zeitgeists and kitchens, through paradigms and junkyards. Pulls still. Home.”

Want Birth Connection Scapegoat Unsettling The Minotaur Kitchens Misspent Want Tectonics Zeitgeists

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“Unngh,' the Minotaur says. What he means is that every past is littered and scarred. What he means is that the present moment is the only moment that pulses, that breathes. What he means is that he himself is capable of great tenderness but has also done great harm. The Minotaur knows that sometimes mercy requires expedience. Haste. Sometimes it can't be about how much a thing hurts.”

Mercy Harm Tenderness Haste The Past The Minotaur

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“It is Tuesday, near dusk. Night creeps in and strips colors from the scene. Everything is purplish. There have been many Tuesdays in the Minotaur‘s life. He wonders how this one will end.”

Uncertainty Tuesday Dusk The Minotaur Purplish

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“The Minotaur comes and goes. He has for centuries. And there have been many bridges. The Minotaur pauses, as he walks, midway through the covered bridge that serves, in more ways than one, as the entrance to Old Scald Village. He rests his heavy snout against one of the wooden trusses. The Minotaur likes this portal, both ingress and egress, a breach in the terribly human construct of time.”

Time Bridges The Minotaur Egress Ingress Covered Bridge

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