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Isaac Marion
Age: 42
Born: 1981
Born: December 30
Music Journalist
Novelist
Writer
Seattle
Washington
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Everything you see, you might be seeing for the last time.
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She is Living and I'm Dead, but I'd like to believe we're both human. Call me an idealist.
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...thinking all this maximalism would somehow generate happiness?
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If there are rules, we're the ones making them. We can change them whenever we want to.
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It’s not about keeping up the population, it’s about passing on who we are and what we've learned, so things keep going. So we don’t just end.
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You know things are moving. You're changing, you fellow Dead are changing, the world is ready for something miraculous. What are we waiting for?
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I feel an unfamiliar but pleasant sensation in my lips, tugging them upward. This is... new.
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A month ago there was nothing on Earth I missed, enjoyed, or longed for. I knew I could lose everything and not feel anything, and I rested easy in that knowledge. But I'm growing tired of easy things.
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What happened? How did I get here? How could I have known that my choices mattered?
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I sigh inside, so exhausted by these ugly questions, but when did a monster ever deserve its privacy?
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One mistake, one brief lapse of my new found judgement-that's all it took to unravel everything. What a massive responsibility, being a moral creature.
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It was fun, but it's over now. This is how things go.
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Life only makes any sense if we can see time how God does. Past, present, and future all at once.
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I notice faint scars on her wrists and forearms, thin lines too symmetrical to be accidents.
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I don't want to hear music, I don't want the sunrise to be pink. The world is a liar. Its ugliness is overwhelming the scraps of beauty make it worse.
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Maybe this is why I sleep only a few hours a month. I don't want to die again. This has become clearer and clearer to me recently, a desire so sharp and focused I can hardly believe it's mine: I don't want to die. I don't want to disappear. I want to stay.
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Writing isn't letters on paper. It's communication. It's memory.
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I used to split my time between writing, music and painting. I would work on a book and then abandon it, start a band, do an album, quit music, then do a gallery show. Eventually I decided to give writing a serious shot.
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Stop. Breathe those useless breaths. Drop this piece of life you’re holding to your lips. Where are you? How long have you been here? Stop now. You have to stop. Squeeze shut your stinging eyes, and take another bite.
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Once you've arrived at the end of the world, it hardly matters which route you took.
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