On the spectrum, no. On a spectrum, certainly.
If you knew yourself to be an abomination, but were worshipped by millions, would you cave to your ego, or fight for your self-loathing?
Don’t mistake scale for importance, or ambition for significance.
As he spoke, her expression passed through every shade of sadness, distaste, anger, disappointment, irritation, contempt, pity, dismissal. Somewhere along the way he’d lost her respect, if he’d ever had it, and couldn’t find his way back.
the music, which is death
the art, which is death
the season, which is death
the moment, which is death
the sound, which is death
the light, which is death
the wind, which is death
the voice, which is death
the laughter, which is death
the love, which is death
Your utopia, my nightmare.
For years I proceeded as if my activity had significance—an unschooled toddler solemnly pretend-working with blocks.
Business exigencies gradually transform the physical environment into an implausible pastiche.
The pain index has been revised. It now goes up to 15.
You think 25 years from now is a distant land. It’s just down the street.
They kept the empty high chair in its place at the table long past the time it was needed. It was astonishing that an inanimate object could retain a faint half-life of the love that had centered on it so many years before.
Was the body a vessel or a trap? In his experience, the latter. He wanted out, in any way possible.
He had been transfigured. Everything was equally beautiful, and equally ugly. Everything was infinite. He woke up with tears in his eyes.
Each sleepless night between the hours of 2 and 5 you traverse a vast region in which your failings are laid bare under the moon’s implacable light.
This plateau, which probably has a name along the lines of something Flats.
—wfmknight
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