“If I didn't define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people's fantasies for me and eaten alive.”
--Audre Lorde
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“If I didn't define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people's fantasies for me and eaten alive.”
--Audre Lorde
I'm enjoying the way she describes everything spot-on, yet not overtly; throwing a thorough knowledge of the Midwest in there so that you might not really notice it if you didn't know. I've had to read more than a few lines aloud--tap, tap--listen to this!
They pronounced "milk" to rhyme with "elk," and "milieu" as "miloo."
We both have had many discussions about "melk," dating back to high school--and we can name the names of the offenders.
Across the street the gray concrete stadium wall rose three times higher than any building around, and it overshadowed the neighborhood in a bleak and brutal way.
Even though it's in tiny bits and pieces that could easily be overlooked, Moore really gets the isolation, mundane awkwardness and sweet-smelling clarity of Midwestern college town culture (in, ahem, "Troy").
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*Or maybe that should be Animals being (Moby) Dicks?... Now somebody's gotta make a GIF...
"To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme. No great and enduring volume can ever be written on the flea, through many there be who have tried it."*
(you couldn't tell our tale on a flea either--working on chapter XVIII)
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