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Flora
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‘She might, at this moment, be nothing but a floating intelligence; not even a brain inside a skull, just a presence that perceives, as a ghost might. Yes, she thinks, this is probably how it must feel to be a ghost. It’s a little like reading, isn’t it—that same sensation of knowing people, settings, situations, without playing any particular part beyond that of the willing observer.’
— Jul 29, 2025 06:23AM
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Flora
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“But there are still the hours, aren’t there? One and then another, and you get through that one and then, my god, there’s another.”
— Jul 29, 2025 02:20AM
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Flora
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‘She thinks of how much more space a being occupies in life than it does in death; how much illusion of size is contained in gestures and movements, in breathing. Dead, we are revealed in our true dimensions, and they are surprisingly modest.’
— Jul 28, 2025 10:31AM
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‘Clarissa, she thinks, is not the bride of death after all. Clarissa is the bed in which the bride is laid.’
— Jul 28, 2025 05:16AM
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‘There is still that singular perfection, and it’s perfect in part because it seemed, at the time, so clearly to promise more. Now she knows: That was the moment, right then. There has been no other.’
— Jul 27, 2025 06:58AM
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