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“We won’t grow old together, Cyrus. But can’t you feel this mattering? Right now?”
It feels so American to discount dreams because they’re not built of objects, of things you can hold and catalogue and then put in a safe. Dreams give us voices, visions, ideas, mortal terrors, and departed beloveds. Nothing counts more to an individual, or less to an empire.
Zee talked about how luxurious it felt to do nothing in New York City, a place where you could do anything.
“You’re still so beloved on earth anyway, it makes sense you’d want to stay near it.
Seneca said grief should last no longer than seven years. Anything more was indulgent.
Grace: to land in a city that is always on, lit up. To be able to wander twenty-two hours a day, learn the city, think, weep, watch, weep, wander, listen, wander, learn, listen, weep, wander, then pass out on a bench, on some grass, without being bothered.
An alphabet, like a life, is a finite set of shapes. With it, one can produce almost anything.
