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It sounds like this person wants to peel off your face and wear it.”
months. He knows that, eventually, concrete changes will take place in his life, but he can’t conceive of any meaningful change that he’s capable of bringing about. Something will have to happen to him.
“You think that because I act one way around you and a different way around other people that one of those is more authentic?”
One night, she was the new girl who smoked too much. The next, everything she did hit his eyes with psychedelic tenderness. When he looked around the restaurant, with its antique light bulbs and pretentiously unpretentious paper tablecloths, the space around Jen was activated and different. When his eyes swept over the room and encountered Jen, the thrill was almost tactile, as if his fingers had brushed against an erogenous zone.
“Life is repetitive. Everything occurs in cycles. The waves just emulate the natural cycle of all living things. Don’t resent the repetition—embrace it!”
“The self is mutable,
That’s what I like about you, Remy. Horus doesn’t have an evil bone in his body, but you do.”
How is it a transformation to become a poor imitation of someone who already exists?”
Alicia’s death were real, it should alter everything else. After seeing his bloody and disfigured girlfriend on a stretcher, he should have taken a bloody and disfigured train home to a bloody and disfigured apartment. He should have entered their bedroom and discovered a pit spewing dark ash instead of Alicia’s unmatched socks in the same place they’d been that morning.
He would like a wormhole. He would like pollution; some of his reality leaking into hers, and vice versa. He’d like some of that island foliage.
He doesn’t understand why she, like Jen, seems to believe that whatever is behind Remy’s “walls” is anything good.
ending. The satisfaction of seeing this picture in his mind is almost as good as actually being inside it.
Remy looks down at Jen and sees eternity, feels the simultaneity of all things.
