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we can’t seem to turn the love off

[...] I wanted for there to be a universal balance, a universal answer, though I suspected maybe that balance is different for everyone. A friend who was gang-raped in high school says that any and all work by artists who’ve exploited and abused women should be destroyed. A gay friend whose adolesc…

—p.9 Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma PROLOGUE: THE CHILD RAPIST (3) by Claire Dederer
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in this room, everything could be cured by thinking

It’s hard to imagine a scene of greater coziness and safety. My house sat in the middle of a field in the middle of the woods in the middle of an almost entirely crime-free island. The living room faced south and was flooded with light even on the gloomiest Pacific Northwest afternoon. The room was…

—p.4 PROLOGUE: THE CHILD RAPIST (3) by Claire Dederer
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from which light was absent

If the zone where I found myself was inhabited, it could in any case only be by neohumans; the organism of a savage could never have stood up to the journey I had made. I now anticipated without joy, and even with a certain annoyance, an encounter with one of my fellow creatures. The death of Fox, …

—p.335 The Possibility of an Island by Michel Houellebecq
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a world where the stakes are simplistic and pitiless

I had left my coitus cream at the Lutétia, and this was my first mistake; I came much too quickly, and, for the first time, I sensed she was a little disappointed. She continued to move, a little, on my sex, which was becoming irredeemably soft, then moved aside with a resigned grimace. I would hav…

—p.228 by Michel Houellebecq
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principally and almost uniquely bodies

If I was acrimonious, she was sweet; and if I took, unreservedly, the side of the old, she did not take, to the same extent, the side of the young. A long conversation ensued, becoming more and more emotional and tender, first in the bar, then at a restaurant, then in another bar, and finally in th…

—p.152 by Michel Houellebecq