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Week 4 of no electricity due to Typhoon Odette/Rai

"...there grew up inside me, this creation which was nothing but an obsessional plant, a sort of coral growth, which was expropriating everything, including life itself, until life itself became this which was denied but which constantly asserted itself, making life and killing life at the same time.”

On Steve Ames answering Cynthia's question about his job as a roadie for Johnny (a writer), King described it.. 'But he, Steven Andrew Ames of Lubbock, also had a job to do; his was to make sure Marinville didn't have to write the book on a Ouija board instead of his word processor.'

"It is difficult for me to put into words... yet I am positive that certain pieces of music, certain works of art, and certain books and plays were created, not by the composer, artist, author, or playwright but by God, and those whome we have acknowledged as the creators of these works were only the instruments employed by God to communicate with us. What's the matter, Mister Og?"

Looking at her, he felt a sharp lance of guilt. She should be snugly tucked into a bed somewhere in a house with a shrinking mortgage, a teddy bear crooked under one arm, ready to go back to school the next morning and do battle for God, country and the 2nd grade. Instead, she was standing in the breakdown lane of a turnpike spur in upstate New York City at 1:15 in the morning, on the run, consumed with guilt……………...

"A smile shone out of his face, so sudden and so simple in its happiness that I felt my heart break for him a little, in spite of the terrible thing he had done. What a world we live in—what a world!"

almost there..

Wow.. Steve Jobs was adopted…. and stubborn.

For Doctor Sleep

shit internet, why are you slow!

"Our faces were no more than ten inches apart, but she was light-years away from me."

Midori is gay.

"Girls have periods and boys jerk off. Everybody."

Putabells, akala ko di ko na ma retrieve tong account na 'to. Gagong Facebook! Buti na lang, nag sign in ako via Twitter. Hayun! Keribells.

Garraty's circle is broken.

Benny.. :(

Naoko... Why?

Why is Garraty so special?

I must be crazy reading 8 books together.

"The need to shit after eating does not mean that eating is a waste of time."