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Even when all the unknowns become known, every detail accounted for, every witness interrogated, how much can we ever truly understand our own lives?
We are subject to its mysterious workings but never given a narrative that satisfies. Any attempt to impose logic doesn’t hold up: there is no memory that doesn’t fuzz around the edges, reveal itself as something else entirely,
“All goes onward and outward, nothing collapses, / and to die is different from what any one supposed, and luckier.”
But in the weeks that followed, Trip spent his days wandering the halls, hoping for Lux to appear, the most naked person with clothes on he had ever seen.
When she smiled, her mouth showed too many teeth, but at night Trip Fontaine dreamed of being bitten by each one.
Virgin suicide What was that she cried? No use in stayin’ On this holocaust ride She gave me her cherry She’s my virgin suicide
“See, the circles under your eyes come out in overcast. That’s because we’ve got pale skin. In sunlight … just a minute … see, like this, they’re gone. So you should wear more base or concealer on cloudy days. On sunny days, our complexions tend to wash out, so we need color. Lipstick and even eyeshadow.”
aritex,”
It had to do with the way the mail wasn’t delivered on time, and how potholes never got fixed, or the thievery at City Hall, or the race riots, or the 801 fires set around the city on Devil’s night.
