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‘Call it something I ate.’
I think of John N. R. Wayne, who would have won this year’s What aBurger, standing watch in a mask as Donald Gately and I dig up my father’s head.
Mildred Bonk.
Miranda Donk
The name was unlikely because if ever an eighth-grader looked like a Daphne Christianson or a Kimberly St.-Simone or something like that, it was Mildred Bonk.
God seems to have a kind of laid-back management style I’m not crazy about.
I’m pretty much anti-death. God looks by all accounts to be pro-death. I’m not seeing how we can get together on this issue, he and I,
there are two ways to lower a flag to half-mast.
why does everybody keep the serious mailing supplies in the drawer nearest the kitchen phone?
One of the positives to being visibly damaged is that people can sometimes forget you’re there, even when they’re interfacing with you. You almost get to eavesdrop.
TE OCCIDERE POSSUNT SED TE EDERE NON POSSUNT NEFAS EST
But he appeared huge and bloated as a woman, not merely unattractive but inducing something like sexual despair.
What if the temple comes to Mohammed? What if you just love?
the kid so repels Hal because Hal sees in the kid certain parts of himself he can’t or won’t accept. None of this ever occurs to Hal when Ingersoll’s in the room. He wishes him ill.
She referred to her father as her Old Man, which you can just tell she capitalizes.
C wanted we should elemonade the Patty’s map
I’m just afraid of having a tombstone that says HERE LIES A PROMISING OLD MAN.
TENNIS AND THE FERAL PRODIGY,
Here is how to handle being a feral prodigy.
Try to learn from everybody, especially those who fail.
That it is simply more pleasant to be happy than to be pissed off.
That ‘acceptance’ is usually more a matter of fatigue than anything else.
Joelle, at the end of her rope and preparing to hang from it,
“Few foreigners realize that the German term Berliner is also the vulgate idiom for a common jelly doughnut, and thus that Kennedy’s seminal ‘Ich bein ein Berliner’ was greeted by the Teutonic crowds with a delight only apparently political,”
conversations strettoing against a ghastly old pre-Carter thing saying ‘We’ve Only Just Begun,’
Geoffrey (not Geoff, Geoffrey)
Reminds me of someone I know (also named Geoffrey, not Geoff)
who danced the same way she twirled and invoked mass Pep,
Yeah!
almost nothing important that ever happens to you happens because you engineer it.
Destiny has no beeper; destiny always leans trenchcoated out of an alley with some sort of Psst that you usually can’t even hear because you’re in such a rush to or from something important you’ve tried to engineer.
invoking mass Pep during breaks in the action,
!!
By Orin’s sophomore year she no longer twirled or incited Pep in any way.
Aw
Anyway, Mario II’s incomplete gestation and arachnoidal birth left the kid with some lifelong character-building physical challenges.
I like that idea. “Character-building physical challenges.”
who did not treat Mario M. Incandenza with the casual gentility of somebody who doesn’t pity you or admire you so much as just vaguely prefer it when you’re around.
How to choose any but a child’s greedy choices if there is no loving-filled father to guide, inform, teach the person how to choose? How is there freedom to choose if one does not learn how to choose?’
NNYC’s harbor’s Liberty Island’s gigantic Lady has the sun for a crown and holds what looks like a huge photo album under one iron arm, and the other arm holds aloft a product. The product is changed each 1 Jan. by brave men with pitons and cranes.
‘The truth will set you free. But not until it is finished with you.’
‘So I’m stuck in the cage from either side. Fame or tortured envy of fame. There’s no way out.’ ‘You might consider how escape from a cage must surely require, foremost, awareness of the fact of the cage.
Do not underestimate objects!
O.N.A.N.’s official crest, a sombreroed eagle with a maple leaf in its mouth,
What if, Veals’s spokeswoman ruminated aloud, what if the viewer could become her/his own programming director; what if s/he could define the very entertainment-happiness it was her/his right to pursue?
DFW’s gonna shit himself when he discovers Netflix
‘The little things. Access to transport. Good digestion.
the way it gets better and you get better is through pain. Not around pain, or in spite of it.
Ferocious Francis G., whose mouth was never without a toothpick
I’m him
squeaks of weighted wheelchairs moving slow, implacable, calm and businesslike and yet menacing, moving with the indifference of things at the very top of the food-chain;
They’re so cool
Lenz has a keen antenna for people like this and their stock is low on his personal exchange.
‘But so what about this Half Measures guy hit you so hard?’ ‘Harrd. Harrrrrd. Sound it out.’
God I keep forgetting they’re in Boston
‘Instead of watching the contact and then imaginatively extending the beginning of its flight, like those of us hobbled by sight.’
‘Mike Pemulis, you are in motion a prince and in repose a sage.’
Dysautonomia,
Dysautonomia mention 😎😎😎
It’s like there’s some rule that real stuff can only get mentioned if everybody rolls their eyes or laughs in a way that isn’t happy.
reading somebody called Sylvia Plate.
