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Loser is a cliff. Once you’ve gone over, you’re over.
Barbara Kingsolver • Demon Copperhead: A Novel
‘Did you take it?’ said James, looking at the children one after the other. Abruptly he seemed remote and stern, and desirable because of this; so Thomas turned away in shame.
Sarah Perry • Enlightenment
Jack Isidore is a ‘crap artist’ who lives with his sister, Fay, and her husband, Charley Hume, in Seville, California in the late 1950s. He collects worthless objects and is prone to unusual beliefs such as the existence of telepathy, flying saucers and the idea that the world will end on 23 April 1959. However, the main narrative concerns the dete
... See moreAnthony Peake • A Life of Philip K. Dick: The Man Who Remembered the Future

Psychologists, I recollected, have ascertained that the comparative inferiority of women in contexts described as purely intellectual, is attributable to the greater discouragement and repression of their curiosity when children. “Thank you, Sally. But I’m quite happy here, you know.” “You’re not. Are you, Mel?” “No. I’m not.” “Well then?” One day
... See moreRobert Aickman • Dark Entries
She loves feeling that every headway man tries to make
Richard Powers • The Overstory: A Novel

Jean Shinoda Bolen is one of the most accessible writers on Hermes. She is Japanese-American, a professor of psychiatry at the university of California, San Francisco, and is familiar with parapsychology. In the 1970s she wrote for Psychic magazine, which her husband edited and published. Her interest in psychic matters is further seen in her book
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