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Everything you see, you might be seeing for the last time.

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Isaac Marion
Age: 42
Born: 1981
Born: December 30
Music Journalist
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The kind of stuff I usually read is a bit more on the literary side, like books that I think are influential in the sense that they're doing pulpy subject matter in a refined way. Like 'The Road' by Cormac McCarthy, I loved that book.
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We eat and sleep and shuffle through the fog, walking a marathon with no finish line, no medals, no cheering.
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How do I appear unthreatening when her lover's blood is running down my chin?
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It's hard to take your life so seriously when you can see it 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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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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...wanting change is step one, but step two is taking it.
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I wish people were willing to dig a little deeper than the surface elements of a premise before tossing one story in with another.
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But it does make me sad that we've forgotten our names. Out of everything, this seems to me the most tragic. I miss my own and I mourn for everyone else's, because I'd like to love them, but I don't know who they are.
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Why is it beautiful that humanity keeps coming back? So does herpes.
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Soft flesh is eaten by hard teeth.
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I wince at her use of the word human. I've never liked that differentiation. She is living and I'm dead, but we're both human. Call me an idealist.
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I'm not a general or a colonel or a builder of cities. I'm just a corpse who wants not to be.
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It was fun, but it's over now. This is how things go.
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When the entire world is built on death and horror, when existence is a constant state of panic, it's hard to get worked up about any one thing. Specific fears have become irrelevant. We've replace them with a smothering blanket far worse.
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Sometimes I wonder if he has a philosophy. Maybe even a worldview. I'd like to sit down with him and pick his brain, just a tiny bit somewhere in the frontal lobe to get a taste of his thoughts. But he's too much of a toughguy to ever be that vulnerable. - R on M
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What's the point of trying to fix a world we're so briefly in?
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That's why we have memory. And the opposite of memory— hope. So things that are gone can still matter. So we can built off our pasts and make future.
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I can no longer believe in any voodoo spell or laboratory virus. This is something deeper, darker. This comes from the cosmos, from the stars, or the unknown blackness behind them. The shadows in God's boarded-up basement.
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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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