Katherine Dunn
Katherine Dunn
Katherine Karen Dunnwas an American best-selling novelist, journalist, voice artist, radio personality, book reviewer, and poet from Portland, Oregon. She is best known for the novel Geek Love. She was also a prolific writer on boxing...
mother eye healing
I am here, come closer," the old donkey said with her eyes. "I will mother you.
fashion dog real
It goes in streaks. But some things never go out of fashion.' Hunger artists, fat folks, giants, and dog acts come and go but real freaks never lose their appeal.
men soon-enough texas
There are parts of Texas where a fly lives 10,000 years and a man can't die soon enough.
unique normalcy glimpse
I get glimpses of the horror of normalcy. Each of these innocents on the street is engulfed by a terror of their own ordinariness. They would do anything to be unique.
life baby believe
Can you be happy with the movies, and the ads, and the clothes in the stores, and the doctors, and the eyes as you walk down the street all telling you there is something wrong with you? No. You cannot be happy. Because, you poor darling baby, you believe them.
glasses milk staggering
Suddenly the staggering love bursts away from me like milk from a smashed glass.
stories doorways intersections
Every doorway, every intersection has a story.
brain behaviour mediocrity
There are the those whose own vulgar normality is so apparent and stultifying that they strive to escape it. They affect flamboyant behaviour and claim originality according to the fashionable eccentricities of their time. They claim brains or talent or indifference to mores in desperate attempts to deny their own mediocrity.
hens crystals mama
When your mama was the geek, my dreamlets," Papa would say, "she made the nipping off of noggins such a crystal mystery that the hens themselves yearned toward her, waltzing around her, hypnotized with longing.
lying comfort insult
The truth is always an insult or a joke, lies are generally tastier. We love them. The nature of lies is to please. Truth has no concern for anyone's comfort
magic age trouble
I have been a believer in the magic of language since, at a very early age, I discovered that some words got me into trouble and others got me out.
winning use freak
They thought to use and shame me but I win out by nature, because a true freak cannot be made. A true freak must be born.
beautiful hurt earthquakes
I remember, in hot floods, the way he slept, still as death, with his face washed flat, stony as a carved tomb and exquisite. His weakness and his ravening bitter needs were terrible, and beautiful, and irresistible as an earthquake. He scalded or smothered anyone he needed, but his needing and the hurt that it caused me were the most life I have ever had. Remember what a poor thing I have always been and forgive me.
thinking important going-away
I think that it's really important to go away and come back.