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“You ought to know, you were my best friend. You were. I know you loved me. I loved you.
No one should have gone through what we went through, but we did. And it kills me to think of it.
But I didn't love you like you loved me. I don't hate you for that. It just makes me sorry, that there isn't someone else who could love you better.
I know when you think about how I went, you'll get it. I was always uneasy about being alive. The idea of being dead makes me feel clear. When I think of it. It makes me think peace, peace, peace. It makes me happy. I am looking forward to it, to the absence of everything. And so I want you to be happy for me, that this is better for me. That I found what I needed. I know you won't be. But it's the last thing I want. You happy.”
― Edinburgh
No one should have gone through what we went through, but we did. And it kills me to think of it.
But I didn't love you like you loved me. I don't hate you for that. It just makes me sorry, that there isn't someone else who could love you better.
I know when you think about how I went, you'll get it. I was always uneasy about being alive. The idea of being dead makes me feel clear. When I think of it. It makes me think peace, peace, peace. It makes me happy. I am looking forward to it, to the absence of everything. And so I want you to be happy for me, that this is better for me. That I found what I needed. I know you won't be. But it's the last thing I want. You happy.”
― Edinburgh
“To write is to sell a ticket to escape, not from the truth, but into it.”
― How to Write an Autobiographical Novel
― How to Write an Autobiographical Novel
“What would you read to someone who was dying? Annie Dillard had asked our class. She wanted this to be the standard for our work. There, at the memorial service for my friend, I thought of another: Dying, what stories would you tell?”
― How to Write an Autobiographical Novel
― How to Write an Autobiographical Novel
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thanks for the sympathy!
:)
maybe I'll add one of your books to my list as well for even more (sympathy)!!
all best,
JT

Thanks.
Most seem to think it's either 1)acting out a Berber subplot from a Paul Bowles novel 2)playing Commandante or 3)a stick up....one friend said he instantly reached for his wallet to surrender it.
I was actually pretending I was Bazooka Joe for some self-portraits. Remember him? Remember how unfunny those comics wrapped around the gum were. Dry as the gum dust on them.
Getting up at 4 a.m. for monday work: lousy
tripping over terra cotta bunny going through backyard at 4:18 a.m.: Sucky
getting out of work at 1 pm, encountering no traffic coming home and sipping on a Smirnoff Raw Tea at 2:12 p.m.? Priceless!
lol...oooh Sanvaean is on! Lisa Gerard is a goddess. I was accused of being a devil worshipper for playing her at work once. I was just singing along with Liz Phair about taking someone's head...wow that's a rangy collection lyrics-wise...i can't sing along with Lisa...who the hell can...
I bought a movie camera and am making my first film tonight...i already have it in my mind's eye and ear...hope it comes off...
Hope you are furiously writing but without, like, the fury...only the furor...cacoethes scribendi is I believe the technical term...
ooh cake is on...my media player knows and loves me....
;-)
xo B.

Because you look so composed.
You look very relaxed in the world but prepared for the horrible struggles that will follow.
You will shrug like Caligula.
And say...."And?...."
That's hot.
I am W. (the good...well less evil one) and I approve this message.
Don't worry. I unclicked the fucking Update Feed button.
:-)

I heard in it a Brothers Grimm voice and suddenly I felt a forest looming up all about me...
A forest of cat eaters and dragon prodigies walked on leashes by corporate drones.
Curiouser and curiouser.
Then I realized I belonged there and metamorphosed into a wolf and went looking for a magic purveyor of sushi.
The Grimms are all about the sushi.

That would interest me.
I don't Paolini from Paolo & Francesca or payola.

But when you get the email...it's like you click on it to see what the group is and YOU'VE INSTANTLY JOINED...
I keep forgetting this.
And once I've joined it's too late. I'm too lazy to reverse my membership.
I still have no idea what the CATS group is. I think it might be an Asian swingers club. Or it might be about eating cats, because the moderator jovially talked about eating cat curry...curry cat?...whatever...
Every so often I ask Dana, "Hey Dana, are we still in the cat eating club?'
Still the moderator seems like a nice guy (gal?) I don't believe I've ever investigated...so I'm happy to "swell his throng" or whatever.
Maybe I am in a group that will help to topple an East Asian despotism.
That would be nice.
And to think I did it while sitting in my living room eating sushi and scratching my meat and two veg.

Oh wait, that's what they called the neighbors & townspeople back in those days!
Apothecaries are hot.
She should have done him instead.

What is the Flaubert quote...Life is a comedy to those who think but a tragedy to those who feel?
Close?

Argh...this is terrible...
Again, I'm very sorry.
-Jeremy

I am listening to Bobby McFerrin mouth Concerto in D Minor in a really convincing way.
Now my media player just went to K.D. doing something even more convincing from Ingenue.
K.D., Cmere. She makes my legs so wobbly.
Now, that's a mensch. :-)

-Jeremy :)
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