“The truth about the world, he said, is that anything is possible. Had you not seen it from birth and thereby bled it of its strangeness it would appear to you for what it is, a hat trick in a medicine show, a fevered dream, a trance bepopulate with chimeras having neither analogue nor precedent, an itinerant carnival, a migratory tentshow whose ultimate destination after many a pitch in many a mudded field is unspeakable and calamitous beyond reckoning." -Cormac McCarthy

See Victor Davis Hanson for details

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Romans 8:38-39, KJV

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There is no Frigate like a Book

BY EMILY DICKINSON

There is no Frigate like a Book

To take us Lands away

Nor any Coursers like a Page

Of prancing Poetry –

This Traverse may the poorest take

Without oppress of Toll –

How frugal is the Chariot

That bears the Human Soul –

A new book situates the problems with feminism at its inception.

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Coming out as transgender immediately boosts these girls’ social status, the author finds, but once they take the first steps of transition, it is not easy to walk back. This book offers urgently needed advice about how parents can protect their daughters.

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Riders of the Purple Sage by Zane Grey

The book revolves around the victimization of women in the Mormon culture: events in Riders of the Purple Sage are centered on the struggle of a Mormon woman who sacrifices her wealth and social status to avoid becoming a junior wife of the head of the local church, while Zane's sequel, Rainbow Trail contrasts the fanatical older Mormons with the rising generation of Mormon women who will not tolerate polygamy and Mormon men who will not seek it.

Reading is a form of self-identification that works, paradoxically, by encouraging us to identify with others, an abstract process that changes us in the most concrete of ways.”

― David L. Ulin, The Lost Art of Reading: Why Books Matter in a Distracted Time