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"When he picks up the reins he cannot help noticing that his horse is also black, naked and shiny wet, and the feelings about the horse are of security and affection. It occurs to him that there is something odd about that: the pride he takes in his horse; the nausea the woman provoked. He is a touch ashamed and decides to make sure it was a vision, that there is no naked black woman lying in the weeds. -- TM" — Sep 04, 2025 01:35PM
"When he picks up the reins he cannot help noticing that his horse is also black, naked and shiny wet, and the feelings about the horse are of security and affection. It occurs to him that there is something odd about that: the pride he takes in his horse; the nausea the woman provoked. He is a touch ashamed and decides to make sure it was a vision, that there is no naked black woman lying in the weeds. -- TM" — Sep 04, 2025 01:35PM
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""I'll be at the cafe Monday," she had said, "meet me at noon." Jerry arrived at 11:30, chose a seat outside, ordered a latte and told the waiter, "Come back at noon." Jerry looked at the other patrons: a couple laughing, an old man playing with his watch, and a young boy shoving pancakes into his mouth. The waiter returned at noon and said, "Thursday special: sloppy joe." "I'll have that," Jerry said." — May 01, 2025 08:02AM
""I'll be at the cafe Monday," she had said, "meet me at noon." Jerry arrived at 11:30, chose a seat outside, ordered a latte and told the waiter, "Come back at noon." Jerry looked at the other patrons: a couple laughing, an old man playing with his watch, and a young boy shoving pancakes into his mouth. The waiter returned at noon and said, "Thursday special: sloppy joe." "I'll have that," Jerry said." — May 01, 2025 08:02AM
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" Slippage: Men in coral castles sleep soundly as an earthquake rips through the borough below, dismantling wood hovels. A common man with a black beard -- speckled gray -- sees a woman before him. Her sharp jaw and curved body in a wrap dress silhouettes the sun. The earth trembles and begs. His tongue shakes, daring to speak what he always wanted to say. His lips part as the earth swallows him whole." — Aug 24, 2025 10:00AM
" Slippage: Men in coral castles sleep soundly as an earthquake rips through the borough below, dismantling wood hovels. A common man with a black beard -- speckled gray -- sees a woman before him. Her sharp jaw and curved body in a wrap dress silhouettes the sun. The earth trembles and begs. His tongue shakes, daring to speak what he always wanted to say. His lips part as the earth swallows him whole." — Aug 24, 2025 10:00AM
“Is everybody in? Is everybody in? Is everybody in? The ceremony is about to begin. The entertainment for this evening is not new, you've seen this entertainment through and through you have seen your birth, your life, your death....you may recall all the rest. Did you have a good world when you died? -enough to base a movie on??”
― An American Prayer
― An American Prayer
“Without music, life would be a mistake.”
― Twilight of the Idols
― Twilight of the Idols
“Only after disaster can we be resurrected. It's only after you've lost everything that you're free to do anything. Nothing is static, everything is evolving, everything is falling apart.”
― Fight Club
― Fight Club
“In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.”
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“Without contraries is no progression. Attraction and repulsion, reason and energy, love and hate, are necessary to human existence.”
― The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
― The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
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