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Shock
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It's the shock of the thing, is what I'm saying, and my new and somewhat untested theory is that when something is shocking it also seems unfair even when it isn't. A shock disrupts the normal flow of things and what is normal usually feels the same as what is fair and I guess what philosophy and history and all sorts aim to do is to prize these two things apart, what is normal from what is fair, but only ever after the fact. Only, actually, when it’s too late for the people involved.
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― Idle Grounds
― Idle Grounds
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Death was an inverse Big Bang; an impossible magic trick where everything had become nothing in the very same instant, where one state had been replaced so completely by another that no evidence of the first could be detected, and where the catalyst had been vaporized by the sheer shock of the new.
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― Rubbernecker
― Rubbernecker
...September 26, 2010 to October 26, 2010...
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