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It may be that the impressions of her infancy are caught somehow in the pulp of her eyes, luring her. Or there may be some hooked structure in her cells that twist her toward all that the world calls freakish.

— Katherine Dunn Geek Love (1989)

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I wanted to cry, loud and wet with the pain of love.

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I had maggot brains that night and may have imagined half of it, and misunderstood the rest.

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She blurbed through her Moms-All-Purpose-Adjustable-List-Of-Horrors that might have happened whenever a child is out of sight.

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She is suspicious and fearless and her progress is alarming.

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The molasses voice pours into the sponge ear of the microphone and is transformed into silent, pulsing waves that radiate over a hundred miles.

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