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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.”

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Book:The Minotaur Takes His Own Sweet Time
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“It is the geese plying the graying skies of autumn in floating V-formations on a rendezvous with southern horizons that gives me the greatest pause. For my life is rarely raised to the calls of life on the wing that beg me to rise up and lay hold of distant horizons in search of a season being birthed out of the one now dying. For to stay here in a season now expired is to die along with it, and despite the fact that I had died many times, I must never forget that I can still fly.”

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Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough
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“Et parce qu'en ce propre jour naquit Pantagruel, son père lui imposa tel nom, car Panta, en grec, vaut autant à dire comme tout, et Gruel en langue agarène , vaut autant comme altéré, voulant inférer qu'à l'heure de sa nativité le monde était tout altéré, et voyant, en esprit de prophétie, qu'il serait quelque jour dominateur des altérés . Ce que lui fut montré à celle heure même par autre signe plus évident, car, alors que sa mère Badebec l'enfantait, et que les sages-femmes attendaient pour le recevoir, issirent premier de son ventre soixante et huit tregeniers, chacun tirant par le licol un mulet tout chargé de sel, après lesquels sortirent neuf dromadaires chargés de jambons et langues de boeuf fumées, sept chameaux chargés d'anguillettes, puis vingt-cinq charretées de poireaux, d'aulx, d'oignons et de cibots, ce qui épouvanta bien lesdites sages femmes.”

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Book:Gargantua and Pantagruel
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