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> [I love that "furious and gorgeous barrage." That helps me see the relation between the introduction and the book's final section, where writing about a fire (and about the attempt to understand the event), also becomes an attempt to understand…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/laura-mullen/i-love-that-furious-and-gorgeous-barrage-that-helps-me-see-the/)

[Laura Mullen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/laura-mullen/)

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## More by Laura Mullen

> [Oh my research. Well, I got an English Degree. And I got that degree in a certain time/at a certain place. If you add…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/laura-mullen/oh-my-research-well-i-got-an-english-degree-and-i-got-that-degree-in/)

[Laura Mullen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/laura-mullen/)

> [The boundary between expert and amateur was an imposed social-cultural "protection" which actually exposed a number of women to a fatal disease, because decaying…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/laura-mullen/the-boundary-between-expert-and-amateur-was-an-imposed-social/)

[Laura Mullen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/laura-mullen/)

> [In Frankenstein there is a transfer first of life into death (in the creation and animation of the monster), and then of death into…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/laura-mullen/in-frankenstein-there-is-a-transfer-first-of-life-into-death-in-the/)

[Laura Mullen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/laura-mullen/)

> [Is it possible that where the subject is socially approved (tah tah tah TAH tah, it's war) almost no one thinks we're "stuck," but…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/laura-mullen/is-it-possible-that-where-the-subject-is-socially-approved-tah-tah/)

[Laura Mullen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/laura-mullen/)

> [There's a case in Baton Rouge, haunting me, where a mother left her twelve-year-old daughter to be babysat (every day for months) by a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/laura-mullen/there-s-a-case-in-baton-rouge-haunting-me-where-a-mother-left-her/)

[Laura Mullen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/laura-mullen/)

> [Admitting how ill we are, how deep the damage goes, how constantly the abuse cycle is repeated and how horribly we have failed those…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/laura-mullen/admitting-how-ill-we-are-how-deep-the-damage-goes-how-constantly-the/)

[Laura Mullen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/laura-mullen/)

> [It seems all "protection" has to be monitored, considered, weighed and justified - I am suggesting we do that (but it's something Mary Shelley…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/laura-mullen/it-seems-all-protection-has-to-be-monitored-considered-weighed-and/)

[Laura Mullen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/laura-mullen/)

> [In the "Intervention" section of the book we go into that looping from a battery of positions (where healer and sufferer are blurred). I'm…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/laura-mullen/in-the-intervention-section-of-the-book-we-go-into-that-looping-from/)

[Laura Mullen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/laura-mullen/)

> [And Complicated Grief is a text that announces, from the start, in its citation of influence, dense intertextuality and hybridity, a failure of some…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/laura-mullen/and-complicated-grief-is-a-text-that-announces-from-the-start-in-its/)

[Laura Mullen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/laura-mullen/)

> [Maybe one way to think about it would be in the context of the historical development of germ theory. The problem of childbed fever…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/laura-mullen/maybe-one-way-to-think-about-it-would-be-in-the-context-of-the/)

[Laura Mullen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/laura-mullen/)

> [Star Wars film is breaking all previous box office records. (Why might we want to revisit those characters, that narrative, those jokes and tropes…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/laura-mullen/star-wars-film-is-breaking-all-previous-box-office-records-why-might/)

[Laura Mullen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/laura-mullen/)

> [The most important aspect of writing the pieces that make up this eighth book was yielding to my obsessive side, letting my own "complicated…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/laura-mullen/the-most-important-aspect-of-writing-the-pieces-that-make-up-this/)

[Laura Mullen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/laura-mullen/)

> [I can tell that I shaped the book very deliberately, after a great deal of thought, and that I insisted this piece function as…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/laura-mullen/i-can-tell-that-i-shaped-the-book-very-deliberately-after-a-great/)

[Laura Mullen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/laura-mullen/)

> [There's a nice clear difference between real protection (wash your hands, or wear a condom) and the fake protection offered by institutions which often…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/laura-mullen/there-s-a-nice-clear-difference-between-real-protection-wash-your/)

[Laura Mullen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/laura-mullen/)

> [One might say that "Torch Song" is, in part, about the urgency of the effort to pin things down and what wild dart throwing…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/laura-mullen/one-might-say-that-torch-song-is-in-part-about-the-urgency-of-the/)

[Laura Mullen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/laura-mullen/)

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