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It's all right not to believe in luck and good omens. Nobody believes them. But it doesn't do any good to take chances with them and no one takes chances.

— John Steinbeck, Cannery Row

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Another way of looking at how 'home' can come in different forms

Come revisit some fun chapters in John Steinbeck’s Cannery Row and consider what they say about the nature of home and shelter.

“It leads us to some good questions: do we think we have a right to make a home, even if it doesn’t conform to middle-class housing standards? The Malloys have found and made shelter, and the iron walls of the boiler are no tent. If you were a city official, would you force them out? Why?

And what about the gophers? The right to be, the right to a habitat, the right to be a habitat—our need for shelter is bound up with the broader push for the ability of any living thing, be it a person or a river, to exist for its own sake, and not that of capital-centered economy. But what might it look like to realize those rights?”

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this is the most realistic queer dialogue ive ever seen

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Important context: they’re married to each other.

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Emily Dickinson, from a letter to Abiah Root (May 1848)

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“The way to turn an ex-lover into a friend is to never stop loving them, to know that when one phase of a relationship ends it can transform into something else. It is to acknowledge that love is both a constant and a variable at the same time.”

— Gabrielle Zevin, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow