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Posts by Helen Douglas

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Congratulations to our Nebula Award Winners!

“Why Don’t We Just Kill the Kid In the Omelas Hole” by Isabel J. Kim (short story)
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“Negative Scholarship on the Fifth State of Being” by A. W. Prihandita (novelette)
clarkesworldmagazine.com/prihandita_1...

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"Despair nourishes itself by its refusal to mourn." ~ Jonathan Lear

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“in that meeting a clue is conveyed that reveals a mystery that wasn’t a mystery until there was the clue. Not the kind of mystery that can be solved. Not a mystery of what happened or who did it or even why. This has all been known for so long. The kind of mystery that is a sacrament." A de Marcken

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Belief in the existence of other human beings as such is love. ~ Simone Weil

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Philosophical practice: to awaken a person’s capacity and desire for emancipation. Existential distress is the human experience of a person who is in touch with reality and yet prohibited from thinking, speaking or to acting in accordance with what is true.

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"Knowledge knocks against the cold scope of ignorance, like sunbeams on the mirroring sea, dumbfounded by its depth." ~ Edmond Jabès

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“The triple contagions of nationalism, utopianism and religious absolutism effervesce together into an acid that corrodes the moral metal of a race, and it shamelessly and even proudly performs deeds that it would deem vile if they were done by any other.” Louis de Bernières, Birds Without Wings

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