#the quote is from Boot Theory by Richard Siken

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A man takes his sadness down to the river and throws it in the river

           but then he's still left

with the river. A man takes his sadness and throws it away

                                                   but then he's still left with his hands.

- Boot Theory, Richard Siken 

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BKDK + quotes about hands that make me feral

Richard Siken - Unfinished Duet // Yrsa Daley-Ward - I’ll admit it. I’m drawn to the wolves // Braeden Philips - The symbolism behind holding someone’s hand // Richard Siken - Boot Theory // Hélène Cixous - from Olivier de Serres - A Single Passion Two Witnesses // Dalton Day - One-Act Play In Which Not All Problems Can Be Solved, & Not All Problems Are Problems, But Even So, Some Are // Adonis - To a Soothsayer (tr. Khaled Mattawa)

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my own private idaho x quotes from crush by richard siken // part two (one)

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Bookish questions: 5, 17, 26, 45, 48

5. What book or book series would you like to see turned into a film/ TV series?

The Harper Connelly Mysteries series by Charlaine Harris (of The Southern Vampire Mysteries a.k.a. the True Blood series fame), hands down.

The series is narrated by 24-year-old Harper Connelly, who comes from a self-professed “riches to rags” family. Her mother married a man when Harper was a teenager, and she acquired a step-brother, Tolliver, in the process. They watched their parents succumb to drugs and their family life reduced to nothing. At 15, Harper was struck by lightning, a life-altering event that left her with the unique ability to sense dead people. When near a dead person, she can hear a “buzzing sound” that intensifies if the death is more recent. Along with this ability, she can see how the person died, but in the case of murders, not the identity of the murderer. Intent on making the most of her situation, Harper and Tolliver (who has taken on the role of her manager) charge customers who are in need of her special talent.

CBS was developing the series, then dropped it, then SyFy picked it up, then dropped it, all in 2012. And god, it hurts.

17. What is your favourite book that contains an LGBTQ+ character?

Oh god, amnesia time.

I remember enjoying E.M. Forster’s Maurice but little else. I thoroughly enjoyed Stephen Chbosky’s The Perks of Being a Wallflower and the first two books of Jacqueline Carey’s Kushiel’s Legacy (I need to read more).

But mah babe is Anne Rice’s The Witching Hour.

26. What is your favourite non-fiction book?

All my love for Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson and Susan McCarthy’s When Elephants Weep: The Emotional Lives of Animals (1996). All of it.

Not since Darwin’s The Expression of Emotions in Man and Animals has a book so thoroughly and effectively explored the full range of emotions that exist throughout the animal kingdom. From dancing squirrels to bashful gorillas to spiteful killer whales, Masson and coauthor Susan McCarthy bring forth fascinating anecdotes and illuminating insights that offer powerful proof of the existence of animal emotion. Chapters on love, joy, anger, fear, shame, compassion, and loneliness are framed by a provocative re-evaluation of how we treat animals, from hunting and eating them to scientific experimentation. Forming a complete and compelling picture of the inner lives of animals, When Elephants Weep assures that we will never look at animals in the same way again. 

But also Hugo Van Lawick’s Solo: Story of an African Wild Dog (1973) - not to be confused with the National Geographic documetary Solo: The Wild Dog’s Tale, featuring an entirely different individual.

But the lion’s share of my love (see what I did there?) for Joy Adamson’s - of Elsa the lion fame - books. 

45. Do you own a poetry anthology? What is your favourite poem from it?

So many. 

R.D. Laing’s Knots (1970). This is a hell-scape of logic games so I’m going to just quote the first bit.

They are playing a game. They are playing at not

playing a game. If I show them I see they are, I

shall break the rules and they will punish me.

I must play their game, of not seeing I see the game.

Richard Siken’s Crush (2005). “Boot Theory”, followed by “Driving, Not Washing”.

Louis Untermeyer’s The Albatross Book of Living Verse: English and American Poetry from the Thirteenth Century to the Present Day (1933). I don’t have a favourite. Hell, I doubt I’ve read the whole thing.

And all the poems hidden in Neil Gaiman’s short story collections. “Instructions.”

I do not have an anthology of E.E. Cummings (yea, with capital letters) and this makes me sad.

48. What book made you angry?

Dick Dawkins’ The God Delusion (2006). Yeah, I said Dick.