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favoritea key to the understanding of all religions is that a god’s idea of amusement is Snakes and Ladders with greased rungs. Wyrd Sisters
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from Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
Houses, like people, are apt to become rather eccentric if left too much on their own
from Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
Naturally he was eager to re-establish himself as Emperor, but it was not yet known where he would chuse to be Emperor of. Susanna Clarke – Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
County gentleman who read in their newspapers the speeches of this or that Minister would mutter to themselves that he was certainly a clever fellow. But the county gentlemen were not made comfortable by this thought. The country gentlemen had a strong suspicion that cleverness was somehow unBritish. That sort of restless, unpredictable brilliance belonged […]
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
Mr Norrell (who knew there were such things as jokes in the world or people would not write about them in books, but who had never actually been introduced to a joke or shaken its hand) Susanna Clarke – Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, pg 41
The serpent and the goddess
Women, therefore, had no input into a theology that gave so much importance to the male seed, and that led to a situation where masturbation or oral sex, performed between two consenting couples, was more serious than rape; rape at least preserved” the natural relationship between the sexes, whereas other activities “wasted” the seed altogether. […]
The serpent and the goddess
Fergus’s fertility was so renowned that his name itself has been translated as “male ejaculation son of super stallion”. His virility was such that seven fists fit in his penis and his scrotum was the size of a bushel bag. Condren, Mary. (1989) The Serpent and the Goddess: Women, Religion, and Power in Celtic Ireland […]
The Serpent and the goddess
the word man … can encompass women, although the converse is not true and the word woman can never stand for the general but only for the particular. Condren, Mary. (1989) The Serpent and the Goddess: Women, Religion, and Power in Celtic Ireland by Mary Condren
The Serpent and the Goddess
History is not the objective science it was once thought to be but a particular form of power and knowledge, involving the manipulation of academic and political resources and serving to ensure the dominance of certain groups. Condren, Mary. (1989) The Serpent and the Goddess: Women, Religion, and Power in Celtic Ireland