"This is a strange book: visionary and dark. It stutters out a kind of music: repeated phrases which accumulate errors and mutate as they go like chromosomes or, as Woodward puts it better, 'visible fissile ribbons.' It's as if we were present for the moments of creation and extinction. Uncanny Valley is ominous and beautiful."

-- Rae Armantrout

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“I am not simply teaching the reading; I am teaching the reader.”
“You do the natural. Trust God for the super.”
“But once I saw Fulvia Cardew crumple up a sheet of paper with just a couple of words written on it and you wouldâ€™ve thought sheâ€™d murdered someone from the looks she got.”
“Those were the people who made her something, and without them she was different. She'd held on to them and to that old self tenaciously, though. She clung to it, celebrated it, worshipped it even, instead of constructing a new grown-up life for herself. For years she'd been eating the cold crumbs left over from a great feast, living on them as though they could last her forever.”
“In hard times, beauty can seem frivolous - but take it away, and all you're left with is hard times.”
“If God is a crutch, then atheism is a coma.”
“Our knowledge of stars and interstellar matter must be based primarily on the electromagnetic radiation which reaches us. Nature has thoughtfully provided us with a universe in which radiant energy of almost all wave lengths travels in straight lines over enormous distances with usually rather negligible absorption.”
“I'd say to any woman, get out of that bad relationship that's turning you into a shell of your former self. Learn from it and get out. Then wait; enjoy yourself and your friends because, when what you want comes along, you'll spot it.”

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