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I think the adjective post-modernist really means mannerist. Books about books is fun but frivolous.
Angela Carter
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Angela Carter
Age: 51 †
Born: 1940
Born: May 7
Died: 1992
Died: February 16
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Your green eye is a reducing chamber. If I look into it long enough, I wil become as small as my own reflection, I will diminish to a point and vanish. I will be drawn down into that black whirlpool and be consumed by you. I shall become so small you can keep me in one of your osier cages and mock my loss of liberty.
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Stars on our door, stars in our eyes, stars exploding in the bits of our brains where the common sense should have been
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