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he had learned to tolerate the sometimes-painful present by living in the future.
What, after all, is a video game’s subtextual preoccupation if not the erasure of mortality?
It was 1996, and the word “appropriation” never occurred to either of them.
Yep that makes sense…
And what is the alternative to appropriation?
Ichigo’s run (in contrast to their walk) as having “the speed, beauty, and danger of water in motion. When the child runs, they resemble nothing so much as a wave.
two core beliefs: (1) all things were knowable by anyone, and (2) anything was fixable if you took the time to figure out what was broken.
“That love is all there is; is all we know of love. It is enough; the freight should be proportioned to the groove.”
He wanted to die a million deaths like Ichigo, and no matter what damage was inflicted on his body during the day, he’d wake up tomorrow, new and whole.
For a moment, she felt dangerously untethered from her body and from reality, and she had to sit down to feel the ground beneath her, before she could continue searching for Sam.
There are, he determines, infinite ways his mother doesn’t die that night and only one way she does.
It was only when he was alone and he couldn’t participate in the business of living that he tended to notice how lovely being alive was.
