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Not sure what happens to you, but sudden brutal nausea is what happens to me when I get invaded, or ensnared, by little harmless thoughts. Seriously banal, petty stuff: the most obvious example is my instinctive revulsion when waiters say "You guys," to my table. "Can I get you guys anything else?" or "Everything all right for you guys?"
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Not sure what happens to you, but sudden brutal nausea is what happens to me when I get invaded, or ensnared, by little harmless thoughts. Seriously banal, petty stuff: the most obvious example is my instinctive revulsion when waiters say "You guys," to my table. "Can I get you guys anything else?" or "Everything all right for you guys?"
No, it doesn't make sense;... Read more of this blog post »
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Praise of Motherhood
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What Precision, Such Restraint
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John Gardner: A Tiny Eulogy
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Uncle Manny
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Chewing the Page: The Mourning Goats Interviews
by Phil Jourdan (Goodreads Author), Stephen Graham Jones , Stephen Elliott — published 2013 — 2 editions |
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Klondike: A Game of Ears
— published 2010 — 2 editions |
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Solarcide Presents: Nova Parade
by Martin Garrity (Goodreads Author) , Nathan Pettigrew , Amanda Gowin — published 2012 |
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What Precision, Such Restraint
by Jourdan Phil, Phil Jourdan (Goodreads Author) — published 2013 |
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“Maybe people are strangers because time makes them strangers, not because you don't know them, and people you've never met are strangers because you've spent so long not knowing them.”
― Phil Jourdan, Uncle Manny
― Phil Jourdan, Uncle Manny
“The mountain in the distance grows darker as we approach it, but it isn't black, and the thought slips into my mind: perfect blackness is impossible now. And because I don't know what that means, and because this is all a dream, I accept the thought unconditionally.”
― Phil Jourdan
― Phil Jourdan
“And she wouldn't be there. She'd be off somewhere he'd never find her. That was the nature of the woman he loved, to be elsewhere.”
― Phil Jourdan
― Phil Jourdan
“And she wouldn't be there. She'd be off somewhere he'd never find her. That was the nature of the woman he loved, to be elsewhere.”
― Phil Jourdan
― Phil Jourdan
“The mountain in the distance grows darker as we approach it, but it isn't black, and the thought slips into my mind: perfect blackness is impossible now. And because I don't know what that means, and because this is all a dream, I accept the thought unconditionally.”
― Phil Jourdan
― Phil Jourdan
“Maybe people are strangers because time makes them strangers, not because you don't know them, and people you've never met are strangers because you've spent so long not knowing them.”
― Phil Jourdan, Uncle Manny
― Phil Jourdan, Uncle Manny
“Because I am thought to be important I am left alone. They call me doctor but I am not the kind of doctor they believe I am. I cannot mend a broken leg and am useless to everyone onboard. By virtue of my professorship I am granted peace.”
― Phil Jourdan
― Phil Jourdan
“Love is opening up, removing stitches prematurely, letting the wound tremble in the sunlight.”
― Phil Jourdan
― Phil Jourdan
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This is a group for people who enjoy reading memoirs/biographies/autobiographies about people who have overcome great adversity in their lifetime.
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