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You might as well try to paint a house that's on fire

Chuck Palanhiuk, Choke

pg 58

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He was assaulting the world by assaulting himself.

Chuck Palahniuk, Choke 

pg. 37

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BEATIFIC

1. blissfully happy

2. imparting holy bliss

Chuck Palahniuk, Choke

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I'm not so much a good friend as I'm the parent who never wants you to grow up.

Choke - Chuck Palahniuk Pg. 34

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I'm not so much a good friend as I'm the savior who wants you to worship him forever

Choke - Chuck Palahniuk Pg. 33

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AGRARIAN

1. relating to cultivated land

2. Noun - Person advocating for redistribution of landed property, especially as a social movement.

Choke - Chuck Palahniuk, chapter 4

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Salomé, by Henri Regnault

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Mata Hari!

Margaretha Geertruida "Margreet" MacLeod (née Zelle; 7 August 1876 – 15 October 1917)

Dutch exotic dancer/courtesan. Convicted of being a spy for Germany in WWI, then executed by firing squad in France.

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RUBE

1. country bumpkin

2. awkward/unsophisticated person

Choke - Chuck Palahniuk

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1913 - Niels Bohr depicted the atom as a small, positively charged nucleus, surrounded by electrons that travel in circular orbits. Similar to the solar system, but using electrostatic force instead of gravity. 

Preceded by:

Cubic model - 1902

Plum pudding model - 1904

Saturnian model - 1904

Rotherford model - 1911

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Niels Bohr (1885-1962) Danish Physicist - model of the atom!