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“In my head, when the gales are riding wild,
I steer towards catastrophe
then write about it.”
― Hill of Doors
I steer towards catastrophe
then write about it.”
― Hill of Doors
“They call this progress, when it's really only greed.”
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“How ironic that Freud, an exemplary product of the rationalist tradition, should discover the unconscious mind...Freud was confronted with a dilemma. On the one hand, he saw that our conscious lives are largely controlled by unconscious motivations. Yet for Freud this unconscious motivation was a primitive, instinctive, unreasoning force.”
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“New Gravity
..how a life’s new gravity suspends in water.
Under the oak, the fallen leaves are pieces
of the tree’s jigsaw; by your father’s grave
you are pressing acorns into the shadows to seed.”
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..how a life’s new gravity suspends in water.
Under the oak, the fallen leaves are pieces
of the tree’s jigsaw; by your father’s grave
you are pressing acorns into the shadows to seed.”
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“He walks. That is his name and nature.
Rows of buildings, all alike,
doors and windows, people going in, looking out;
inside — halls and stairs, halls and stairs,
and more doors, opening and closing.
Street after street of buildings, all the same.
People, all the same.”
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Rows of buildings, all alike,
doors and windows, people going in, looking out;
inside — halls and stairs, halls and stairs,
and more doors, opening and closing.
Street after street of buildings, all the same.
People, all the same.”
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