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World War Z by Max Brooks
Note: "quisling" refers to a human that had broken down psychologically due to the presence of zombies and thus begun acting like a zombie. These humans attack other humans mindlessly but are still attacked by normal zombies who can tell the difference. Despite numerous attempts by government-funded doctors, the psychological trauma of a quisling is too far gone for any chance of success of rehabilitation.
The phenomena is reportedly akin to Stockholm Syndrome. The living human subject becomes so fearful of zombies that they try to "appease" them, or "switch sides", in an effort to become the object of their fear. They begin to act like zombies, moving slowly, moaning, attacking and consuming live creatures, even becoming oblivious to the pain from various wounds they might sustain.
'Cause even though we can't tell the difference between them, the real zombies can. Remember early in the war, when everybody was trying to work on a way to turn the living dead against one another? There was all this "documented proof" about infighting--eyewitness accounts and even footage of one zombie attacking another. Stupid. It was zombies attacking quislings, but you never would have known that to look at it. Quislings don't scream. They just lie there, not even trying to fight, writing in that slow, robotic way, eaten alive by the very creatures they're trying to be.
- pg 159
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Dennis Cooper interviewing William Vollmann
http://books.google.com/books?id=nR0qaM1ZVU4C&pg=PA306&lpg=PA306&dq=dennis+cooper+william+vollmann&source=bl&ots=Tb2pawm7pW&sig=W14KN183Gq013ZzYelR7ud5DH74&hl=en&sa=X&ei=WdYlT8W6BMv1sQLu0uSMAg&ved=0CCYQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=dennis%20cooper%20william%20vollmann&f=false
Dennis Cooper:
Your passionate treatment of subjects like prostitution seems to cause a lot of confusion among the literary establishment, as evidenced by your review coverage, at least. It’s as though you’re acknowledged as an important writer, but, at the same time, one gets the feeling that they wish you’d behave.
William Vollmann:
Maybe so. I’m always really surprised by that. I don’t set out to shock people. I’m not shocked by the stuff I write. It’s just that what interests me is sometimes very depressing. But I think it’s so important, and that’s why I want to write about it. People think that writers can just write well about anything, and they don’t understand that the force in the prose comes from the writer’s personal fascination with what he’s writing about. That makes it hard sometimes, and people misunderstand. Bud I don’t know if it would be better or worse if it were otherwise. For me, the most important thing in terms of my career is if I can persuade my publisher to take the next book, and if I can somehow make ends meet. The reviews aren’t so important. I really try to write books that will last and will interest people in the future—not just my writing, but the people I write about, whom most of the world doesn’t know or care about. It would make me so happy to think that in a hundred years from now someone could go read my books and know that the people in them were alive.
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madvillian w/ mf doom - rhinestone cowboy
mf doom - question mark
mf doom - dead bent
madvillain w/ mf doom- accordian
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Mercury, the planet closest to the sun
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http://denniscooper-theweaklings.blogspot.com/2012/01/meet-isiskitty-sureynot-thatkidzach.html
horny-freak, 24, quoting Robert Davies
You like the mind to be a neat machine, equipped to work efficiently, if narrowly, and with no extra bits or useless parts. I like the mind to be a dustbin of scraps of brilliant fabric, odd gems, worthless but fascinating curiosities, tinsel, quaint bits of carving, and a reasonable amount of healthy dirt. Shake the machine and it goes out of order; shake the dustbin and it adjusts itself to its new position.
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