This found bit of scrap metal is better than this tossed-off sketch, which is better than this elaborate story.
His audience had demonstrated a bottomless need for his bottomless need of their bottomless need.
The workings of mathematics, never fathomable, in the middle of the night became a source of terror.
Hope or expectation, that’s where the trouble begins.
He could see it in himself, he was becoming clumsy, oafish, and powerless to stop it.
Front view: almost acceptable. Side view: disaster.
As his senses aged and became less acute, they also became less convincing.
Your brain has lost its goddamned mind.
Would I give up a lifetime for one more day with you? In a second, forever.
A great artist and an excruciating bore.
The Hangover Decades
There’s a contagion of insanity loose in the land.
Walking through their friends’ beautiful house, he was saddened to glimpse the exhaustion in his wife’s eyes. For her it had been for poorer, not richer, and in sickness, not health.
Another word for provocateur: asshole.
Few people are cruel enough to say what they’re thinking.
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