Category: muse
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Modern Self-Sacrificing Girl
The modern girl doesn’t need a man. Men hold you back and let you down. A job doesn’t. Valerie Roper in The Tennis Party by Madeline Wickham (p. 245) Do you ever notice how all the self-sacrificing women in history, Joan of Arc, Mother Theresa, can’t think of any others, they all die alone. The…
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Sex Could Kill You
Sex could kill you. Do you know what the human body go through when you have sex? Pupil dilates, arteries constrict, core temperature rises, heart races, blood pressure skyrockets, respiration becomes rapid and shallow. The brain fires bursts of electrical impulses from nowhere to nowhere. Secretions spit out of every gland. And the muscles tense…
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Bukan Tentang Cinta
Saya tidak mengerti bagaimana cara berpikir orang-orang lain yang telah membaca buku Habibie & Ainun karangan Bacharuddin Jusuf Habibie. Tapi, bagi saya pribadi, hal-hal utama yang menginspirasi saya bukanlah hal-hal yang berhubungan dengan kisah cinta Pak Habibie dan Ainun. Maaf saja, menurut saya, banyak buku buku lain yang dapat menggambarkan kisah cinta lebih baik daripada…
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(Sex) Scandal
How can it be, in this ostensibly enlightened age, when men and women live and work as peers and are schooled regularly in what conduct is acceptable and what is actionable, that anyone with so little judgment, so little honor, could rise to such heights? We know that powerful men can be powerfully reckless, particularly…
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Undergraduates VS Graduates
The contemporary who had ‘wasted himself’ in advertising now had his own agency. He had recently been quoted in the paper as saying that he thought graduates weren’t worth the space. “Give me a sixteen year old any day,” he had said. “I am tired of these graduates who think they’re God’s gift because they…
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Gift Giving
The entire institution of gift giving makes no sense. Let’s say that I go out and I spent $50 on you, it’s a laborious activity because I have to imagine what you need whereas you know what you need. I could simplify thing just give you the $50 directly and then you could give me…