I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream

by Harlan Ellison

cogito ergo sum…I think, therefore I am.”

To them, he was there/not there.

adultery, an act of love performed without the catalyst of love,

And as the pattern of separation progressed, a boulder racing mindlessly downhill, needing only the most impossible strength imaginable to halt its crushing rush, his life set itself up in a new sequence, apart from her, yet totally motivated by her existence, and the reality of her absence.

“Yeah. I’m quite certain she does. Otherwise we wouldn’t try to kill each other so hard. It’s making us both very sick, her loving me.”

“Know thyself? If I knew myself, I’d run away.”