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I was just sitting out front having a cigarette when a young girl who looked like a prepubescent boy came up and stood next to me. There was a man walking behind her that she watched intently as he passed us. Once he walked by she let out a sigh of relief. She walked around me and sat on the ledge next to me. She said that she thought something ( Read more... ) -
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Style makes you feel great because it takes your mind off the fact that you're going to die.
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Shakespeare Sherlock
If you prick us, do we not bleed? And if you tickle us, do we not laugh? It is our humanity, and all the potential within it, that makes us beautiful.
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Life After God
My Hotel Year
CathyI had been going through a patch of intense brooding and had made a big hubbub about severing most of my ties to my past. I had moved into a rent-by-the-week cold water downtown hotel room on Granville Street and had cut all my hair off, stopped shaving, and had thorns tattooed on my right arm...The whole ensemble had made a ( Read more... ) -
thEstrangeRalberTcamuS
Then he asked me if I wasn't interested in a change of life. I said that people never change their lives, that in any case one life was as good as another and that I wasn't dissatisfied with mine here at all. He looked upset and told me that I never gave him a straight answer, that I had no ambition, and that was disastrous in business. So I ( Read more... ) -
shampooP: PART THREE
I run to inspect this view from the cliff--the Pacific Vista--the end of the world--and am thrilled at how unlike Europe the view is, Europe's overhistoried countrysides dusted with charcoal and laced with unmoving gullies of pureed smoker's lung ( Read more... ) -
shampooP: PART TWO
I was even then beginning to understand that when you arrive on the doorstep of Europe, you are given a pair of wings--not for using to fly up into the sky but rather with which to fly backward in time.
Europe lacks the possibility of metamorphosis (how egghead!). Europe is like a beautiful baby with super distinctive features who, while ( Read more... ) -
dramarama
Oh, gee, what is it tonight ( Read more... ) -
shampooP: PART ONE
Jasmine's strong features buckle with fright and my finger pushes the shutter button and a portrait of Jasmine is created: a portrait that will be seen by her grandchildren and the one that they will remember her by--a portrait of Jasmine, facing the world as she does at this point in her life, utterly frightened by a monster entirely of her own ( Read more... ) -
g in a c. doug c.
Most people, given a second chance, fuck it up completely. It's one of those laws of the universe that you can't shake. People, I have noticed, only seem to learn once they get their third chance--after losing and wasting vast sums of time, money, youth and energy--you name it. But still they learn which is the better thing in the end ( Read more... )