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Edge Case
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2021
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Though I Get Home
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2018
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3 editions
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The Age of Goodbyes
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2010
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12 editions
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Black Static Issue 59
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2017
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Tone
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2006
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Make I Here
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2018
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Deter
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2013
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“Life was chaos. Attempting to remain more or less the same person from day to day required a psychic bedrock around which to organize one’s various mental loose threads. And this sort of bedrock, which had to withstand daily battering, of course had to be reinforced from time to time. Enter familiar stories under various disguises.”
― Edge Case
― Edge Case
“Yes, the kinds of people who wanted their emotional heartstrings tugged—well, likelier than not, their lives were like still ponds or sheltered groves, without much turbulence to their days. Yet they knew that loss and death would visit them one day, sure as anything. Thus, to be moved by stories was in a way rehearsal for how to act when the dreaded events did visit. When the time came, you’d know without hesitation to wail and beat your chest, or turn to drugs and alcohol. It might even be that the pain of loss, when it happened, would feel “natural,” and this would help people better accept the pain—there, utilitarian after all.”
― Edge Case
― Edge Case
“Which of my features were strengths, and which weaknesses? In the end, I realized that the game was rigged. “Strengths” and “weaknesses” were evaluated in comparison to all the other faces out there in the world. In that way, the scrutiny of my face could never be on its own terms, but always measured against an unspoken standard of beauty, a double always projected over my own inadequate mien.”
― Edge Case
― Edge Case
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“None of our hearts are pure, we always have mixed motives.
Are self deceivers, but the worst of all
Deceits is to murmur 'Lord, I am not worthy'
And, lying easy, turn your face to the wall. ”
― Autumn Journal
Are self deceivers, but the worst of all
Deceits is to murmur 'Lord, I am not worthy'
And, lying easy, turn your face to the wall. ”
― Autumn Journal
“One wanted, she thought, dipping her brush deliberately, to be on a level with ordinary experience, to feel simply that's a chair, that's a table, and yet at the same time, It's a miracle, it's an ecstasy.”
― To the Lighthouse
― To the Lighthouse
“What was it then? What did it mean? Could things thrust their hands up and grip one; could the blade cut; the fist grasp? Was there no safety? No learning by heart of the ways of the world? No guide, no shelter, but all was miracle, and leaping from the pinnacle of the tower into the air? Could it be, even for elderly people, that this was life?—startling, unexpected, unknown? For one moment she felt that if they both got up, here, now on the lawn, and demanded an explanation, why it was so short, why was it so inexplicable, said it with violence, as two fully equipped human beings from whom nothing should be hid might speak, then, beauty would roll itself up; the space would fill; those empty flourishes would form into shape; if they shouted loud enough Mrs. Ramsay would return. “Mrs. Ramsay!” she said aloud, “Mrs. Ramsay!” The tears ran down her face.”
― To the Lighthouse
― To the Lighthouse
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Gosh I think books are your staple diet.
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