"There's no time," the Director said, "that I can see any assimilation of Gehenna into Alliance ... without the inclusion of humans who think at an angle. You can tape them. You can try to change them. If you don't understand what they are now, how do you understand them when they've come another hundred years, another two hundred on the same course?"
- Forty Thousand in Gehenna, C. J. Cherryh
AJ wrote this excellent thing about Benazir Bhutto and living belief in the bone.
(Which was drawn to my immediate attention by a post on which the first comment was, more or less, "Well, financial shenanigans! Nyeah!" which wins my first Missing the Fucking Point award for the New Year.)
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"Dw3t-Hthr" (Duat-Hether) is a title of various female temple officials in ancient Egypt. It means "Worshipper of Hathor" or "Adorer of Hathor".
For you and me, we hold these truths to be self-evident
For you and me, we'd elect each other president
For you and me
We might agree
But that's just us...
Reaching for the alien shore...
-- Rush, "Alien Shore"
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