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“The symbolic meaning is far more interesting than the literal meaning.”
― Leanna Renee Hieber, A Haunted History of Invisible Women: True Stories of America's Ghosts

“The tiny red-hatted gnome held a stack of books, the titles delicately carved onto the spines and painted in gold. Each book represented a different part of her. Outlander for their love across time and because it was one of her favorites. Fairy Tales by Hans Christian Andersen because she had found it in the bookstore. A Christmas Carol because they both loved Christmas. Lily and the Octopus, presumably because of Bernie, and lastly Circle of Friends, which seemed self-explanatory.”
― Amy E. Reichert, Once Upon a December

“Anyone may reasonably admire the decade for the following reason, that it contains within itself a nature which is at the same time devoid of intervals and capable of containing them. Now that nature which han no connection with intervals in beheld in a point alone; but that which ir beheld under three apperances, a line, a supercicies, and a solid. For that which is bounded by two ponit is a line; and that which has two domensions or intervals is a superficies, the line being extended by the addition of breadth; and thah which has three intervals is a solid, lenght and breath having taken to themselves the addition of depth. And these three neture content; for she has not engendered more intervals or dimentions tha these three. And the archetypal numers which are the models of these three are, of the point the unit, of the line the number two, of the superficies the number three, and the soid the number four, the combination of which, that is to say one, and two, and three, and four, completes the decade.”
― Paul Foster Case

“That evening, doodling in her book of True Things in the henhouse, Donkey drew a snake who had eaten another snake just barely smaller than itself and so was entirely full, from tip to tail. Then she decided that this snake-eating snake would actually be inside another snake, a rattlesnake, so she drew a third snake around it. And she knew that a king snake, immune to venom, would eat a rattlesnake, so she put a fourth snake around the others. She considered then that the snake doodle moved back in time. Before the biggest snake could eat the second-biggest snake, all the inside eating had to have happened already. What she had drawn could not logically be older snakes eating younger snakes but precisely the opposite. The younger snake grew up big enough to devour the older snake, who'd already devoured its elder, and so on back in time. The nested dolls Rose Thorn had given her were perhaps not mothers with babies inside them, but babies grown large enough to eat their mothers. All her life she was afraid of Herself eating her, but maybe there was--- also or instead--- an opposite problem.”
― Bonnie Jo Campbell, The Waters