“The harpy wants to win, which means a man must lose. She wants justice, which means a man must be punished. She wants space that could be taken by a man. Are we really willing to make that sacrifice?
What makes a woman's ambition predatory, we are told, is that it overflows its natural bounds. It treads on the lands that men have marked as theirs.”
Source: Women and Other Monsters: Building a New Mythology
“Before Lamia killed children, her children were killed. The root of her violence, like the root of so much violence, is grief.”
Source: Women and Other Monsters: Building a New Mythology
“For the fact is when men are hand, innocent or guilty, their semen, that salty white milk, falls onto the Earth and there are on that very spot we spring up... Why men should ejaculate in the throes of death is a mystery even to me. Perhaps death really is the consummation of life, or maybe it's the last act of the body desperate to bequeath a life that will go on even as its own is obliterated. But I like to believe it is a final one-fingered gesture of defiance at their executioners, the only obscene gesture they can make since their hands are tightly bound behind them. Whatever the reason, felons with their dying gasp impregnate our mother and so we, the mandrakes, are conceived.”
Source: The Gallows Curse
“People often expect religious believers to act in especially prosocial ways, which they often do, but religiosity is not always a predictor or moral kindness.”
Source: The Goodness Paradox: The Strange Relationship Between Virtue and Violence in Human Evolution
“There’s a name for what I am, Odys. I’m your Automaton. You’re my new Master. When Pepin, my old Master, killed himself, he canceled the bond I shared with him. I became functionless—stagnant—inanimate. I couldn’t change from my object-form until you touched me—until I took your soul. I need a soul to fuel me—to wind me up. We’re like machines— our soul is the rechargeable battery. But I’m far from wires, gears, and bolts.”
Source: The Automation
“Dionysus? Really? That’s the best you could come up with? I prefer to be called, like, oh I don’t know, Tiresias or something. You’re changing my sexuality.”
Source: The Automation
“A human society without myth has never been known, and indeed it is doubtful whether such a society is at all possible. One measure of man's advance from his most primitive beginnings to something we call civilization is the way in which he controls his myths, his ability to distinguish between the areas of behavior, the extent to which he can bring more and more of his activity under the rule of reason.”
Source: The World of Odysseus
“The structure of this facility is shaped like the Durga triangle. Each leg adds to a sum of twenty,”
Source: The Tenth Riddle
ҬUna historia, dos caminos:
oscuridad y luz,
¿cuál eliges?
No vayas por el camino fácil,
no aprenderás nada.
Atrévete a adentrarte en el bosque oscuro,
el silencio de la noche
te contará secretos ocultos.
Los animales nocturnos
te enseñarán un mundo mágico,
que te servirá de guía
para encontrar la luz.
No temas,
todo lo que ves es nada más que tu reflejo
en el espejo del mundo,
donde todo se conecta
y se encuentra.
Buen viaje.¨”
Source: La hija del Ganges
“...and Athena, it must be admitted, has never been much of a friend to her fellow women. The war-like goddess of wisdom, who wasn't even gestated by a woman (she sprang fully grown from her father's head), is the original "not-like-the-other-girls" girl.”
Source: Women and Other Monsters: Building a New Mythology