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On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

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“З огляду на масштаби косметичної індустрії та великого індустріального комплексу краси, космічні прибульці, що завітали б до нас, напевно подумали б, що ми вважаємо себе достоту потворними істотами, що потребують постійного покращення.”

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“Hi ha una tònica que sempre es repeteix, la qüestió de classe. La bellesa acosta a una il·lusió de poder, i és això el que la fa addictiva. Però és un poder esclau, traïdor, que no podem destriar de l'amenaça. La bellesa si no neix del desig és una fugida. I si ens acosta al poder, encara que sigui per un moment, no es tracta tant de control com d'adequació.”

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“It’s clear now, that swanhood didn’t serve her. It only served those around her. Dean Farrell, who took her innocence; the woman called Mei, who sold Lindsey’s beauty and kept the profits. That she, too, was a woman somehow made it worse. All things considered, I am lucky not to be a swan. Objectively, the outcomes are better. Even knowing this, I would happily become one if the chance presented itself.”

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“But some of the machinery would be left, since new pieces could always be bought on the instalment plan - gaunt, staring motionless wheels rising from the mounds of brick rubble and ragged weeds with a quality profoundly astonishing, and gutted boilers lifting their rusting and unsmoking stacks with an air stubborn, baffled and bemused upon a stumppocked scene of profound and peaceful desolation, unplowed, untilled, gutting slowly into red and choked ravines beneath the long quiet rains of autumn and the galloping fury of vernal equinoxes.”

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