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Because a youth who tries so hard to be faithful to the warp in himself that he ends up searching the street in drag for perverts, a young man like that must have eyes and ears and a heart exquisitely sensitive to the fear that roots in the backlands of the subconscious.
phacochoere.
Warthog. Fella was using the zoological term lol
And a visit to the professor, compared to returning to his wife and mother-in-law, held a promise of pure therapy.
This is nuts. Your wife is in distress and you’re intentionally avoiding her not only out of personal convenience but because you’ve colluded with your MIL to deceive her!
“In this age of ours it’s hard to say with certainty that having lived was better than not having been born in the first place.”
Every time you stand at a crossroads of life and death, you have two universes in front of you; one loses all relation to you because you die, the other maintains its relation to you because you survive in it.
“I wouldn’t sleep with you when you’ve had this much to drink; it would be meaningless for both of us.”
“... I can’t send my weakling penis onto that battleground!”
Seek help, dude.
“Probably because you weren’t really thinking of me or the baby, either.
The way the wife sees through him with ease! Insane
“Kafka, you know, wrote in a letter to his father, the only thing a parent can do for a child is to welcome it when it arrives. And are you rejecting your baby instead? Can we excuse the egotism that rejects another life because a man is a father?”
What was he trying to protect from that monster of a baby that he must run so hard and so shamelessly? What was it in himself he was so frantic to defend? The answer was horrifying—nothing! Zero!
“As a matter of fact, I kept trying to run away. And I almost did. But it seems that reality compels you to live properly when you live in the real world. I mean, even if you intend to get yourself caught in a trap of deception, you find somewhere along the line that your only choice is to avoid it.”
