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“Every one-night-stand or man in a one-night-stand is like every other one-night-stand or man in a one-night-stand because the sex in a one-night-stand is without time and only time allows value.”

Book:Hannibal Lecter, my father

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Hannibal Lecter, my father

This book delves into the psychological and emotional dynamics of a father-son relationship, intertwining the narrative with the enigmatic figure of Hannibal Lecter. The story examines the impact of a father's actions and the legacy he leaves behind, as well as the son's journey to understand and come to terms with his father's complex nature. more

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Kathy Acker

Kathy Acker was an American novelist known for her experimental writing style and critical explorations of gender, power, and culture. Her works often blended historical, literary, and philosophical elements, challenging traditional narrative structures. more

“After Hatuey, a fifteenth-century Indian insurrectionist, had been fixed to the stake, his Spanish captors extended him the choice of converting to Christianity and ascending to Heaven of going unrepentantly to Hell. Gathering that his executioners expected to go to heaven, Hatuey chose the other”

Choices Heaven Christianity Hell Century Expected Indian Fixed Stakes Gathering Converting Executioners Ascending

Book:My Mother: Demonology

Source: My Mother: Demonology

“LESBIANS are women who prefer their own ways to male ways.LESBIANS prefer the convoluting halls of sensuality to direct goal-pursuing mores. LESBIANS have made a small world deep within and separated from the world.What has usually been called the world is the male world.”

World Way Made Goal Direct Males Sensuality Halls Deep Within Small World

Book:Essential Acker: The Selected Writings of Kathy Acker

Source: Essential Acker: The Selected Writings of Kathy Acker

“In such a society as ours the only possible chance for change, for mobility, for political, economic, and moral flow lies in the tactics of guerrilla warfare, in the use of fictions, of language.”

Use Political Lying Language Chance Fiction Moral Economic Flow Warfare Tactics Mobility Guerrillas Guerrilla Warfare

Book:Bodies of Work: Essays

Source: Bodies of Work: Essays