how much can you take, how much will you give? So far this chapter is a pain. Behind every action – irrational, prescriptive, proscriptive or cruel – there is pain. Pain denied, pain refused, pain dispensed, pain received. Where there is a whiff of destruction, there is a wick of pain. On both sides of trauma’s see-saw, pain sits and pouts. Blessed are those who find pleasure in it. The drama in all actions, all fractions, all passions, every quadratic modality, each didactic anomaly all reduce down to pain. Pain in the springtime, pain in the rain, at this time we are not certain of the
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