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The Bay’s current fulfilled feminist Camille Paglia’s lament: “Human beings are not nature’s favorites. We are merely one of a multitude of species upon which nature indiscriminately exerts its force.”
Caitlin Doughty • Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory
There are no ghosts, but up here”—she gestured toward her head—“it’s a haunted house.” She squeezed Sam’s hand and inelegantly changed the subject.
Gabrielle Zevin • Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow: A novel
We also discuss, among other things: decapitated ostriches, fatal rose petals, and Mary’s robust reappraisal of Marcus Aurelius’s ‘sub-Stoic’ maundering.
Mary Beard: Emperor of Rome
Death, that strange being with the huge square toes who lived way in the West.
Zora Neale Hurston • Their Eyes Were Watching God
Burns was
Jean McNeil • The Dhow House
amalgam
Paul Kalanithi • When Breath Becomes Air
come, the
Jean McNeil • The Dhow House
breccia
John McPhee • Annals of the Former World
In our skulls we carry around three pounds of slimy, wet, grayish tissue, corrugated like crumpled toilet paper.