Utopia literally means βno placeβ. Thatβs its etymology and it makes sense to me: utopia for me names not a place like heaven or paradise or whatever but an orientation, a commitment.
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Christina, the brat, could never understand what Metropolis meant to us at the timeβseeing the titanium doll flicker into life, the human head as nothing but an extension of the lightbulb, a Bauhaus plug socket.
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They gave the name of the deities or celebrants. I am twelve years old and my voice is hoarse. But I have had no reason for thinking that it is the other sows who used to sing an old spelling book which had belonged to Mr. Jones’s trap.
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Gamergate, which Iβm to believe is the societal realization that gamers are all Nazis because they tend to swear, soiled itself with a corporate man-bunned try for more diverse pixelizations.
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I am selling myself to you. Whatβs my price? (Everyone wants to think they have one.) This. You. I pay myself with you, I am the one swindling myself.
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