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Is it George Eliot who says that if we could pay enough attention to the world to hear the grass grow and the squirrel's heart beat, we would die of the roar of it - no, I looked it up, she says "die of the roar which lies on the other side of silence." Melodramatic but she's onto something.

Words - oh I don't know - dangling their little roots in the past as they reach forward, reach towards us.

"Seems to me that, although waiting is hard, especially waiting for something that never arrives, never arriving is hard too and has just about as much waiting in it.
- Well, I've got a talent for it.
Me too actually, being the sky involves a fair amount of just hanging there."

why is she so funnyyyy