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"Apocalyptic thinking is a powerful antagonist to action. It makes us give up agency, feel that all we can do is suffer and wait for the end. [...]In its earlier senses the word meant a revelation, a vision, an insight, an unveiling of things previously unknown, and I pray that the revelation our current apocalypse can bring is the knowledge that we have the power to intervene."

"The hardest things, I realize, you are saying them all twice.[...] The brain always record two tracks at once. [...]always taping two stories in parallel. Short-term memories, long-term memories, two tracks of running recollection, memory doubled. Always doubled. Which makes everything that ever happens to us happen twice."

-- "The Student's Tale," 6 pages on an immigrant's tale hat brought me to TEARS