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Charles Courtney Curran A Deep Sea Fantasy

The Anti-Christ came and went, but no one noticed because he wasn’t worse than the current state of the world already is. The rapture followed, but no one went to Heaven, so we didn’t notice that either. We’ve been living in Hell for the last 5 years, and no one has noticed, yet.

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“But now that I have to leave I finally remember… why I came down to this place… and why, in this strange land, I’d always known that song. ‘Birds, bugs, beasts’… That’s right. I was born to truly live! Just like the birds and the beasts. I don’t want to leave!”

The Tale of the Princess Kaguya (2013) dir. Isao Takahata

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[ID: excerpt from ‘The Complete Works: The Diary,’ Virginia Woolf

“I don’t think I have said enough about the splintered disorder of June, July & August.”]

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Sophocles, tr. by Reginald Gibbons, from Poems & Fragments; “Aphrodite of Kypros,”

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Flowers by Katsushika Hokusai

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Theogony.

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“Poison is traditionally, though not always, a female mode of attack. Classical lore features many women accused of poisoning their spouses, lovers, or rivals: Medusa, Hecate, Circe, Medea, and Agrippina the Younger, to name a few. In particular, witches of literature and accused witches of real life are often associated with potions and spells that make use of poisonous plants found around the home and garden: oleander, hemlock, castor beans (ricin), foxglove, various kinds of berries, and nightshades. Men, of course, make use of poison as well, like Shakespeare’s Claudius and Romero. But the subtle and seductive art of poison is often used as a storytelling device to comment upon the nature, and especially the flaws, of women. Poison is a deceptive weapon, and stories about it play on fascinations with, and anxieties about, what women are hiding. It also offers a violation of proper female domesticity and the same traits that are supposed to make women good botanists. When a woman uses plants or food as poison to subvert rather than maintain the domestic order, she defies her assigned roles of observer, cataloger, and nurturer. Depending on one’s perspective, poisoning can be used to warn of or promote a woman’s independence.”

— Afton Lorraine Woodward, Plants, Domesticity, and the Female Poisoner

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We all suck at getting a good nights sleep because all the heaviest sleepers were eaten by predators in the middle of the night millions of years ago.