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“once ruffle-skirted vanity table where I primped at thirteen, opening drawers to a private chaos of eyeshadows lavender teal sky-blue, swarms of hair pins pony tail fasteners, stashes of powders, colonies of tiny lipsticks (p.39)”

Book:The Still Position: A Verse Memoir of My Mother's Death

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“I didn’t think while I drew. The pencil flew across the page making marks, almost as if it had a mind of its own. Often times I didn’t know what it was going to be until it was completed. The cemetery was still with only a few birds calling off in the distance from time to time. When I finished I was not at all surprised by what had taken form on my paper. It was a portrait of my dad. He was sitting behind the tombstone, using it as a desk, his laptop open in front of him. He wore a peaceful smile. I smiled, too, as another tear fell.”

Drawing Death Of A Loved One

Book:Nowhere

Source: Nowhere

“You will never be skeleton, when I am in ghost.”

Gone Leaving Death Of A Loved One

Author:Anthony Liccione

“I'd much rather be hold up with a ball of yarn, tucked inside the safety of the house with my mother. Out there, you must come to grips with the rot and bone, bloom and disintegration. It's part of the world, this ruthlessness, this severed leg, this sun-bleached skull. I can't really stand it. All the signs point toward change, and all that means is death. - 140-141”

Grief Death And Dying Death Of A Loved One

Book:The Mercy Papers

Source: The Mercy Papers

“Ein toter Mensch ist wie ein Saal, in dem ein Fest zu Ende gegangen ist. Ein rauschendes Fest. Die Menschen sind alle fort um irgendwo anders weiterzufeiern. Und schau, so ein leerer Saal hat doch was ganz Friedliches. Die Luftschlangen, die Gläser, die Musikinstrumente und die Stille.”

Death Death Of A Loved One

Book:Der Flug Der Pelikane

Source: Der Flug Der Pelikane

“It's not that I am not moved by these things, that I don't them in my life. But lately, their power has diminished." - 140”

Grief Death And Dying Death Of A Loved One

Author:Robin Romm

“The struggle is lost from the beginning, long before the victorious party or army conquers state power and ‘betrays’ its promises. It is lost once power itself seeps into the struggle, once the logic of power becomes the logic of the revolutionary process, once the negative of refusal is converted into the positive of power-building.”

Autonomy Anti Capitalism State Power

Author:John Holloway

“A basic theme for the anarch is how man, left to his own devices, can defy superior forces – whether state, society, or the elements – by making use of their rules without submitting to them. ‘It is strange,’ Sir William Parry wrote when describing the igloos on Winter Island, ‘it is strange to think that all these measure are taken against the cold – and in houses of ice.”

Society Autonomy Anarch

Book:Eumeswil

Source: Eumeswil

“If the Bahreini royal family can have an embassy, a state, and a seat at the UN, why should the twenty-five million Kurds not have a claim to autonomy? The alleviation of their suffering and the assertion of their self-government is one of the few unarguable benefits of regime change in Iraq. It is not a position from which any moral retreat would be allowable.”

Morality Iraq Autonomy Royalty Iraq War Kurdistan Bahrain Statehood Kurdish People Al Khalifa Family

Book:A Matter of Principle: Humanitarian Arguments for War in Iraq

Source: A Matter of Principle: Humanitarian Arguments for War in Iraq

“The ship founders on a sandbank and then gets back afloat. Electric power stops; after a while, the machines start up again. During such recesses, the anarch measures his own strength and autonomy.”

Autonomy Anarch

Book:Eumeswil

Source: Eumeswil

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