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meeting anna-louise was like finding a stranger's shopping list in the mall floor and realising there are other, more interesting diets than your own. it was the first time i ever felt incomplete.

the sixties are like a theme park to them. they wear the costume, buy their ticket, and they have the experience. their hair might be long, but it smells great. i should know. daisy uses most of my shampoo.

jasmine goes silent a moment: "secrets of what was on the other side. of the possibilities of perception."

these old drifters seems to me to be lancaster's last connection to the town's brief past, connected to that past by mere virtue of their being too poor to participate in the willful amnesia that propels the rest of the town's citizens into the sparkly and
thrilling future that i desperately want to share.

the present-day reader, encountering them undated, might be inclined to place them in a more recent time, in the 1960s and 1970s, when perceptions similar to those described became the germ of a major counter-cultural groundswell. siddharta spoke to the seekers of those decades; the novella was in great vogue then.

Les sentiers de l'action sont mystérieux.
Celui qui sait voir l'inaction dans l'action et l'action dans l'inaction, celui-là est sage entre les hommes.
Dans le détachement intérieur, il accomplit à la perfection son action.

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