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History written on the flesh.
sophisticated technological constructs,
Haha
Grainger’s face looked odd to him when he saw it up close.
He hasn’t seen a human face, not even his own, in over 15 days.
Haha
Somebody studied your résumé and made a judgment that you can handle it.” “Handle funerals?” “Handle … whatever.” She clenched her fists on the steering wheel, drew a deep breath. “Whatever.”
“moral responsibility”
moral dimension,
come to terms with everyday unhappiness.
Now he felt out of his depth.
Instead, while he’d been laying the stones of his church and dozing happy in his hammock, she was in pain.
I also needed to see these things WITH you, or else be spared from seeing them at all.
I’m watching a high-resolution video clip that was recorded with a micro-camera hidden in somebody’s hat-brim or whatever, and yet the technology of life-saving is straight from the Stone Age!
The real question for the bystanders of tragedy is “Where are WE in all this?”
the idea of a frugal, resource-conscious American corporation almost defied belief.
Haha
“USIC isn’t big on unnecessary technology.” “Yes, I’ve noticed that. It’s one of the unexpectedly admirable things about you.”
Haha
“The impersonal touch?” “It’s what the great religions offer, isn’t it?”
Haha
sirwal
Haha
Haha
Sabah, Malaysia,
Kamelia,
local entrepreneur who supplied female companionship to the timber industry.
Haha
the Aziz Dam in Pakistan,
Missed a bet by not having this dam destroyed by the earthquakes.
undiagnosed diabetes.
“May went off her medication, committed suicide,
found work as a tour guide.
We are souls shut inside a cage of bones;
We get to hang around in there for a certain number of years,
one thing’s for sure: it’s somewhere, and it’s not here.”
your body won’t let you down anymore, and you don’t need insulin and you don’t crave nicotine, and nobody betrays your trust, and every mystery you racked your brains about is clear as day now, and every hurt you ever suffered is OK now,
I want to talk specifics with you.
Give me some names, some particulars.
Details, details.
Why would she need to know, now?
she’d been perfectly pleasant in a dull sort of way.
I know too many of that type!
Haha
Nice
Each of the two buildings fed into each other, providing the energy to catch the water, providing the water to generate the energy.
Oh, if only a few of these Big Brassieres could be installed in famine-ravaged countries like Angola and Sudan!
heliostats—
What was in the other 8?
Haha
It was true he felt no anger, but he felt disturbingly little of anything else either,
Haha
He’s become a self-absorbed prick. She so clearly asked for details, but he can’t be bothered or it’s too *hard* yet he expects more from her.
Bad things were happening to the world in general all the time, it seemed.
honor and contentment were hard to capture on film.
More bad news than he knew what to do with.
Maybe that’s why he can’t write back - what can he say in response? Yet to talk only about his life would be insensitive to the tragedies occurring in Bea’s world.
