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hands. I want to feel all there is to feel, he thought. Let me feel tired, now, let me feel tired. I mustn’t forget, I’m alive, I know I’m alive, I mustn’t forget it tonight or tomorrow or the day after that.
Sitting in there, I knew. I thought, it’s not real!”
“Leo, the mistake you made is you forgot some hour, some day, we all got to climb out of that thing and go back to dirty dishes and the beds not made. While you’re in that thing, sure, a sunset lasts forever almost, the air smells good, the temperature is fine. All the things you want to last, last.
Better, for a minute or two, a sunset. After that, let’s have something else. People are like that, Leo. How could you forget?”
They can’t imagine a change they can’t see.
You’re always trying to be the things you were, instead of the person you are tonight.
“It’s just, if I didn’t see these windows until today, what else did I miss? And what about all the things I did see here in town? Will I be able to remember them when I go away?” “Anything you want to remember, you remember.
The cogs miss, the wheels turn, and lives interlace too early or too late. I lived too long, that much is certain. And you were born either too early or too late. It was a terrible bit of timing.
