January 2012
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“‘It was then that the thing of terror happened. There were some odd noises from...”
– Zora Neale Hurston’s description of a Voodoo ceremony in Haiti during the 1930s from Tell My Horse: Voodoo and Life in Haiti and Jamaica.
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“If I am to understand that you are enquiring whether I am of Jewish origin, I...”
– J R R Tolkien in response to a German publishers questioning whether or not he was of Aryan descent when he attempted to get The Hobbit published in Germany in 1938.
He got them told! 