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Month: February 2004

So Is

Posted on February 22, 2004February 28, 2022 by KZ

The Ex: stop being mean to me The Ex: you’re like screaming at me Kevin: i’m just using bigger font. i’m enunciating, so to speak. The Ex: right The Ex: kz needs to get laid Kevin: low blow Kevin: why go there? Kevin: i just helped you out, and you repay me by talking about…

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I think of Sal Paradise

Posted on February 17, 2004February 28, 2022 by KZ

Unhappiness is such a chronic and static state, that I’m truly beginning to believe that it’s the natural order of things. That’s not to say that I’ve been depressed or anything lately. Quite the opposite, life has been treating me pretty kindly as of late. But every time I poke my head above the bubble…

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Death stood alone, watching the wheat dance in the wind. Of course, it was only a metaphor. People were more than corn. They whirled through tiny crowded lives, driven literally by clock work, filling their days from edge to edge with the sheer effort of living. And all lives were exactly the same length. Even the very long and very short ones. From the point of view of eternity, anyway. Somewhere, the tiny voice of Bill Door said: from the point of view of the owner, longer ones are best.~Terry PratchettSource: Reaper Man
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