The Darkness Outside Us
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Intimacy is the only shield against insanity. Intimacy, not knowledge. Intimacy, not power.
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The conversation begins. As it does, the world splits under me, divides into a Before and an After. I become something stuck between the old and future me.
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your interpretation of your existence has been erroneous. You have mistaken screens for windows. You should not feel ashamed. Why shouldn’t you have made the reasonable conclusion, that you were seeing the truth?
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The feeling has been there the whole time in the darkness, like a pilot light that’s always been flickering inside me: I will fight to live.
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“Whatever they asked, I always said yes. I made myself the instrument they wanted me to be.”
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Kodiak will become your second self. But at first, you will see him and think of a man who needs love and is crying out for you to give it. In you he sees someone who will possess and manipulate him.