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its hermetic vision of human psychology and conversation, its endearingly transparent wish-fulfillment aspects

Ending racism, a vast set of institutionalized practices, is hard enough, but “destroy whiteness” hits my ears as though it were a koan or aporia—a thing you say because you want, for some spiritual or other purpose, to make thinking itself grind its gears

Why, from the top of a nasty gender hierarchy, should we feel so risible?

Rather than keep the peace, he was one of the most captious, especially toward the bosun

Two points abaft of the port beam, he saw a straight dark edge.