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His brain warns him that there are words that cover up the world. There are words that are convenient, hygienic. Legal.
El Gringo,
Lmfao he calling this hahahaha
but on another part of the package, Spanel clarified that it was “Upper Extremity,” strategically avoiding the word hand.
products with these euphemisms that nullified all horror.
“I don’t get why a person’s smile is considered attractive. When someone smiles, they’re showing their skeleton.”
But the pain, he intuits, is the only thing that keeps him breathing. Without the sadness, he has nothing left.
Because hatred gives one strength to go on; it maintains the fragile structure, it weaves the threads together so that emptiness doesn’t take over everything.
He tried to hate all of humanity for being so fragile and ephemeral, but he couldn’t keep it up because hating everyone is the same as hating no one.
Parents who name their children after themselves are stripping them of an identity, reminding them who they belong to.
“The mask of apparent calm, of mundane tranquility, of the joy, at once small and bright, of not knowing when this thing I call skin will be ripped off, when this thing I call mouth will lose the flesh that surrounds it, when these things I call eyes will come upon the black silence of a knife.”
“The human being is the cause of all evil in this world. We are our own virus.”
“We are the worst kind of vermin, destroying our planet, starving our fellow man.”
teaching her
He groomed her and trained her like a pet. I dont know whats more disturbing .
“After all, since the world began, we’ve been eating each other. If not symbolically, then we’ve been literally gorging on each other.
To his surprise, the fingers are exquisite. He realizes how much he misses eating meat.
I feel like this is foreshadowing his spiral soon.
The woman was fined and the female confiscated and sold for a low price in an auction because of what is officially referred to as “proscribed enjoyment.”
CRAZY:o!
simulacrum
Nullify, he thinks, another word that silences the horror.
candescent.
