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You want to be Teilhard de Chardin? You’re getting started way too late.
There’s a better chance you’ll be tomorrow’s Peking Man if I bury you in the cellar.
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youthful pin oaks grant solemn attention to the aluminum gurney
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114100
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When I was 14 I accidentally heard a woman saying behind my back
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114121
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There it it again, that noise. That low hum that I know so well now, spinning, gaining momentum in my head, like a cyclist in a velodrome, until its steadiness and roundness becomes sharp, painful, cutting like glass.
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114176
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we feel entitled to, so unwanted, afraid for, from the billions of stomping oafs, leaping onto our hearts like squishing jelly sandwiches for fun, bullies in power out there? To be brilliant onits tiny behalf? I forget, exactly whyare you still here anyway? Don't…
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114143
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The old hate the young. Robe exposed monks do not Hate mosquitoes. It is one. It is one hand. It is on. Mountains don't hate sky. The rich hate the poor. The poor hate the rich. The parade of scholars hate the …
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1141119
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and we spun you, / spun you!
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114122
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"She was like a perimeter guard for an advanced race of beings who looked human but were somehow para-human entities focused only temporarily within this dimension."
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114110
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I had coffee with one of my characters today. It did not go well. I thought we were friends, but I guess I was wrong.
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114154
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After all our morals
And ethics of distrust
Have been ripped out
And discussed
There’s still the Meat Lady
At the end of the day
Standing around
in the midst of the crowd
Handing out her meat
In little morsels
on a toothpick
Af
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114187
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a fat crow rapturously caws over its good fortune...
not a morsel left on the street,
not even a bloodstain
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114100
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114151
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I change things without notice for himto make sure he's ready for the corporate world. It's no longer our goal to watch cartoonswe must now focus on breakfastthenaction figures. "But Daddy," he says. "I likecartoons." "I know it hurts," I say."But…
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114152
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Brett Littman said that he had seen a costume drawing of a squid atop a pile of drawings at Dorothea Tanning's archive. Mr. Littman did not see a costume drawing featuring a squid at her archive.
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114111
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Benjamin did everything by the clock. He ate when the little hand pointed to five and the big hand pointed to six. He danced when the little hand pointed to three and the big hand pointed to seven. He slept when they both hit twelve.To be more precise, he did everything…
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114120
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Loss and awakening are irrevocable. Love and grief are one.
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114022
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By the basement washtubs, I watched him skin a squirrel:
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114063
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Where scenery is property and time is a straight edge; where the clouds are billowed and still; where one sees a tinfoil ocean and perspective to the east; where the static waves begin to move; where an immobile sky rustles and kneels. Our eyes looking still are the…
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114012
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The Sunday sunset slowly simmers the sea.
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114011
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I should have worn shorts.
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114000
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The way horizons disappear in the dark.
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114000
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Another subject of interest is "furverts"--"individuals who engage in sexual activity while dressed in animal costumes."
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114054
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I suspect I’ll make the right decision.
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114022
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Why should you
go through that
for me?
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114044
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The world's anxious fire breathing mob still wants in, but they don't know what in the smoke they are looking for. They aren't really thinking in that intellectual direction. All these wonderful, friendly books you see do not hold the answer or…
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114064
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FedEx merges with UPS
becoming
FedUp
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114022
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I live in a small fishing village where small people fish and others gossip or invent bizarre methods by which to irritate each other. During our weekly power cuts I go outside and cross the street, sitting on the pharmacy steps to watch myself not be at home in the…
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It sits there, watching, waiting, multiple cycles over.
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