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“We were silly girls then. We thought only D. M. Thomas鈥檚 The White Hotel and H茅l猫ne Cixous and Ana茂s Nin鈥檚 Delta of Venus managed to match our state of excitement. We were at it all the time. You were my first woman, as you probably don鈥檛 remember.鈥 鈥淚 know that, don鈥檛 be cruel.鈥 Martha stopped the car at the Parliament Street light and for a moment the only sound heard was the signal light ticking. 鈥淲e had a private double entendre about the Bright Street cul-de-sac.”
― Incidental Music
― Incidental Music

“she approached her memoir with a renewed sense of resolve. A rapprochement was what was needed. An unfinished book, left unattended, turns feral, and she would need all her focus, will, and ruthless determination to tame it again. She kicked the cat off her chair,”
― A Tale for the Time Being
― A Tale for the Time Being

“What you doing? Stop leave me. Jesus. Bit me. Below the neckline of the dress. The. Bite. Hurt that. My breast. Through the stupid white my bothered skin. See blood come. Rings I think of teeth flower. You. Don鈥檛. You don鈥檛. Again. My lovely girl my love my. He says. Look at me. I鈥檒l always have you in the end. Because I love you. Shut up. Best. So so so so? Well fuck you then. He says. Wipe up that. Put your bra. Fucking state you鈥檙e in. Don鈥檛 know a man loves you. Don鈥檛 know. Fucking mental that you. Dirty cunt like him. Well I liked it and I fucked it and I wanted it some more. You fucking. Shut your. Caught my, the roots, in my scalp like they鈥檒l rip me. Coming. Uncle loving coming. Coming. We to. Home.”
― A Girl is a Half-Formed Thing
― A Girl is a Half-Formed Thing

“In light of recent events鈥攇enocide in East Africa, the collapse of democracy throughout the continent, the isolation of Cuba, the overthrow of progressive movements throughout the so-called third world鈥攕ome might argue that the moment of truth has already passed, that C茅saire and Fanon鈥檚 predictions proved false. We鈥檙e facing an era where fools are calling for a renewal of colonialism, where descriptions of violence and instability draw on the very colonial language of 鈥渂arbarism鈥 and 鈥渂ackwardness鈥 that C茅saire critiques in these pages. But this is all a mystification; the fact is, while colonialism in its formal sense might have been dismantled, the colonial state has not. Many of the problems of democracy are products of the old colonial state whose primary difference is the presence of black faces. It has to do with the rise of a new ruling class鈥攖he class Fanon warned us about鈥攚ho are content with mimicking the colonial masters,”
― Discourse on Colonialism
― Discourse on Colonialism
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