Everything I do is in preparation of one final gesture: dying gracefully: without panic or regret; indifferent, with no feeling of loss or hope for ultimate gain. All philosophizing and pursuits of knowledge and wisdom are priming my consciousness so that, when I know I am dying, I will pass contented.
Someone take away my DAMN FUCK IT thing please. I am wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong again. No reconcile, reconcile, no no no no none. There are things in me that want to wither. Okay!
It is my inclination to describe the "difficulty" of being. This very quickly begins to seem inappropriate, however, and it seems closer to give a more indifferent description: being is sobering, the reflection on which evokes a calm sort of panic, where everything seems simultaneously right and wrong, pleasant and unbearable, awesome and boring.
The platinum smoke was dancing slow in the quiet light of the still afternoon. The music pained it; it writhed and twisted with no particular urgency
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