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1 " Until you have experienced raccoons mating underneath your bedroom at three in the morning, you have missed one of life's sensational moments. "
― Robert Fulghum , All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten
2 " My mother said the bizarre name Raccoona had surely been inspired, at least on a subliminal level, by the masks raccoons don't wear but simply have - the ones given them by nature..... [S]he pointed out that Le Guin had suspected all along that Raccoona and Tiptree were two authors that came from the same source, but in a letter to Alice she wrote that she preferred Tiptree to Raccoona: 'Raccoona, I think, has less control, thus less wit and power.'Le Guin, Mother said, had understood something deep. 'When you take on a male persona, something happens.'When I asked her what that was, she sat back in her chair, waved her arm, and smiled. 'You get to be the father. "
― Siri Hustvedt , The Blazing World
