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not really on page 206 but i’m in the room of 206. i have 7 doors in front of me and 4 doors to my right. i’ll probably start with the furthest left door and make my way down the line, but hard to say for sure because i don’t know where these doors lead. i might forget to come back to page 206. i’m getting scared. i’m just here to fix a computer…

“It seemed as if his rage grew cell-like, swelling him with fury until he was nothing of bone and blood but a hating accusation made flesh.”

“He sat nervously, staring at the keyboard. The moment before attack. It was in the air. But it’s my attack! — he thought triumphantly, my attack on stupidity and fear.”

yeaaaah seems like mad house is the best story in the book for me

“He closed his eyes. For a moment he wondered why it seemed that everything was happening to him lately. As if some revenging power had taken roost in the house, pouring a savage life into inanimate things. Threatening him. But the thought was his a faceless, passing figure in the crushing horde of thoughts that mobbed past his mind’s eye; seen but not appreciated.”

“You don’t seem to realize what I’ve lost.

…I had hopes, oh God, what hopes I had. I was going to write prose to make the people sit up and gasp. I was going to tell them things they needed badly to know. I was going to tell them in so entertaining a way that they would never realize that the truth was getting to them. I was going to create immortal works.

Now when I die, I shall only be dead.”

“And time passed. It flew by faster and faster, seeming to single him out for highest punishment. He — a ma who had begun to value times neurotically that it over balanced his life and made him sick to think of its passing.”

“Quiet is here and all in me.”

“But the anger is still there, apart. Energy is never lost; a primal law.”

“Her husband is beyond himself. Her husband is shooting poison through his arteries. Her husband is releasing another cloud of animal temper. It is mist that clings. It hangs over the furniture, drips from the walls.

It is alive.”

three more short stories down

“A new terror born in death, a new superstition entering the unassailable fortress of forever.”

finished I Am Legend. makes me appreciate the alternate ending of the 2007 movie a bit more, as it feels more faithful to the story than most of the movie lol. interesting! enjoying the writing! onto the rest of the short stories

“The thought dredged up again the endless enigma of why he went on.”

“In a world of monotonous horror there could be no salvation in wild dreaming. Horror he had adjusted to. But monotony was the greater obstacle, and he realized it now, understood it at long last.”

“He tried to rid himself of the concept, but everything in the world seemed suddenly to have dropped into a pit of duality, victim to a system of twos. Two people dead, two beds in the room, two windows, two bureaus, two rugs, two hearts that…”

“He turned away from the bar as if he could leave the question there. But questions have no location; they could follow him around.”

here’s to kristen stewart’s directorial debut 🙏

“Nothing that weighs as little as a Ping-Pong ball can be lethal, yet when Jerry whacked that thing murder couldn’t have been far from his mind.”

Oh you want to read about Don Corleone? Maybe his immediate family? Well all I've got is a gross chapter about a girlfriend's "weak pelvic floor" and the surgery that followed, will that do? It's got really out of pocket male behavior and a woman that is of course so chill, excited even, about it! Is that what you want from your book that was incredibly influential on pop culture????

so this isn't gonna be a casual read, this is gonna be a 'finish in one week' kind of reading

'To treat life as a pilgrimage to a future and better existence, is to disown its' present value.'

One conclusion that follows that "this is it", is that striving towards sanity is never going to work. You have to operate from sanity instead. ...Using sanity to refer very broadly to what if feels like to live the life you want to be living.

Treat your to do list as a menu: a list of tasks to pick from.

a good listen for cleaning the garage

If anything, it's constantly berating yourself that's the self-indulgent path. Reflecting the inner taskmaster's hubristic belief that they can bully you into doing anything, merely by shouting loudly enough. Facing up to reality means facing up to the reality of your moods, desires, and interests too.

To inquire what your life task might be, is to switch your perspective in a manner that makes it possible to think new thoughts. It permits you to dig beneath the crust of assumptions that all to easily end up governing a life: that you have no option but to continue on your current career path, or that you mustn't make choices on which others might frown...