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“People often say they stopped reading a book as a way of criticizing it: “I started it, but I put it down.”
“I put even books I like down,” I say, in direct criticism of myself.
“But the books I love most I’d never dare finish,” I think, in oblique praise of myself.”

PRIDE

“Today I sat in the shallow sea trying to pet the foam of the waves, as if it were a dog.
The foam approached, I reached out, and it ran away every time with such determination that it disappeared, as if it were a cat.
For this I loved the foam, and I reached toward it with ever greater obstination.”

Dog Person

“Because all narratives are endless, that makes the initiating of narratives far more important than the resolution of narratives.
DALLAS WIEBE”

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Kit Schluter
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“No, you fool!” I cried. “Because your foot makes me feel something. And I can’t say the same about many things anymore. How jaded I’ve become! Ever since childhood, I’ve been going along having these things we call experiences—each of which acts, at first, like a key to the next one that comes along and resembles it at all, and, later, like a blind that lies over it. ”

That’s to say, if I haven’t already experienced something in itself, I’ve surely experienced something like it, and the similarity sits there like a lead blanket between the X-ray of my perception and whatever’s going on around me. I’m numb … completely numb! … Am I making any sense?”

umbrella is not bad

No matter how hard the boy knocked and used his voice to tell his mom that he loved her, he just couldn’t wake her up.
When at last she awoke and got out of the bath, her fingers were all wrinkly and the boy was old and had a family of his own back in the country where he lived.”

“Now, when the boy finally got to his mom’s house she was in the bathtub with the door closed and the whole house smelled like a bubble bath. When he called out to her, she asked him to wait outside the door so she could finish her soak, but the water was so warm and relaxing that she fell right asleep. And she stayed there sleeping in the bathtub for many months, and then years, and even decades.