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Scattered in the fountain’s arid basin was a constellation of couns, whitish and crusted. Robert gripped the yellow tape, started at the desiccated wishes.

Time happened, which is always difficult to talk about in human language. Humans talk about time like it’s a circle. Humans talk about time like it’s a line. Humans talk about time like it’s marked in regular intervals that they make up in their minds and then use to define WHEN things happen—but also, they use it to make things happen in particular ways.

An Elderly Lady Has Accomodation Problems: Maud’s downstairs neighbor becomes a little too interested in her apartment.

So why was he doing this? What was his problem? Why did he insist on turning something fun into a grave American ordeal?

It could be said of Steven, as it could be said of each man, that he was the plant manager of a sophisticated psychological refinery, capable of converting vast quantities of crude ridicule into tiny, glittering nuggets of sentiment.

Back with my guys for round #6

Scattered in the fountain’s arid basin was a constellation of coins, whitish and crusted. Robert gripped the yellow tape, stared at the desiccated wishes. There was nothing, he considered, more dry than an inoperative fountain.

This book is Ted Chiang on an emotional roller coaster

City of Laughter is a fucking gutpunch

So I kept it inside me, and that weirdness and sadness vibrates all the time, and maybe I’d just been waiting for someone who wanted me.

But now she felt that a human being should find as much torture and paradox in their relationship with animals as the most overwrought Catholic found in their relationship with God (the other great tolerator of one-sided conversations).

The diversity of life on earth was (as far as anyone knew) the most majestic thing in the universe, and human beings were (as far as anyone knew) the only living things with the capacity to appreciate that majesty, and yet human beings were also the ones who were stamping that majesty out, not deliberately but carelessly, incidentally, leaving nothing behind…