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Even in my most unbearably depressed moments I could be laughing at a friend’s joke but still feel an emptiness in my heart, and then feel an emptiness in my stomach, which would make me go out to eat some tteokbokki – what was wrong with
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“Sometimes, I feel that these poems, while they come from the past… somehow, they also come from the future.
Especially this one. Like I am overhearing someone in the future, whispering poems into a time-wind, and I am remembering not a thing that is past but a thing that is yet to come.”
― Toward Eternity
Especially this one. Like I am overhearing someone in the future, whispering poems into a time-wind, and I am remembering not a thing that is past but a thing that is yet to come.”
― Toward Eternity
“Sometimes, it seemed like the authors were treating language like it was its own creature. A creature that fed, grew, died, and was reborn again. Language was not a tool to them, more like an occasionally useful parasite.”
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― Toward Eternity
“I probably became a lesbian when I started drinking black coffee. Or maybe it was something in the coffee that made me lesbian?”
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“Psych is a mortal whom the god Eros falls in love with. She is given ambrosia on Mount Olympus and weds Eros as a god.”
“I’ll be up for tenure in a few years. Does that count?”
― Toward Eternity
“I’ll be up for tenure in a few years. Does that count?”
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“What else can we be but stories about ourselves that we tell ourselves?”
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― Toward Eternity
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