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I'm a very neat monster.

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Jeff Lindsay
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: July 14
Novelist
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Miami
Florida
Jeffry P. Freundlich
Jeffry P. Lindsay
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I'm quite sure more people fake an awful lot of everyday human contact. I just fake all of it. --Dexter
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I rose to my knees, mouth dry and heart pounding, and paused to finger a rip in my beautiful Dacron bowling shirt. I pushed my fingertip through the hole and wiggled it at myself. Hello, Dexter, where are you going? Hello, Mr. Finger. I don't know, but I'm almost there. I hear my friends calling.
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been there done that, bought the t-shirt Chapter 2
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Feeling - what authentic human fun!
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After a long moment I closed the freezer door. I wanted to lie down and press my cheek against the cool linoleum. Instead I reached out with my little finger and flipped the Barbie's head. It went thack thack against the door. I flipped it again. Thack thack. Whee. I had a new hobby.
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I don't know if you have noticed this, but it is quite possible for two human beings to have a conversation in which one or both parties involved has absolutely no idea what they're talking about.
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And as we should all know by now, anytime you predict failure you have an excellent chance of being right.
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A reasonable being might think that he and I could find some common ground have a cup of coffee and compare our Passengers, exchange trade talk and chitchat about dismemberment techniques. But no: Doakes wanted me dead. And I found it difficult to share his point of view.
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...being torn apart by far too many loyalties that could not possibly live together in the same brain.
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Of course it was a terrible thing, and the world would be a much better place without someone in it who could do that, but did that mean we had to miss lunch?
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Our universe is ruled by random whim, inhabited by people who laugh at logic.
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Now I know what it is like to feel like a total idiot.
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But what could I do? Be stupid for a while? I wasn't sure I knew how, even after so many years of careful observation.
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I know family comes first, but shouldn't that mean after breakfast?
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I really am guilty, of many somethings, all of them lethal and very enjoyable and technically not quite legal.
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The mind picks some very bad times to take a walk doesn't it?
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Life's only obligation, afterall, was to be interesting.
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I waved to everybody. Some of them even waved back. They knew me, had seen me go by before, always cheerful, a big hello for everybody. He was such a nice man. Very friendly. I can’t believe he did those horrible things . . .
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What to wear? I could think of no guidelines on what we were wearing this season to a party forced on you to celebrate an unwanted engagement that might turn into a violent confrontation with a vengeful maniac. Clearly brown shoes were out, but beyond that nothing really seemed de rigueur.
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And then more quiet, silence so deep it almost drowned out the roar of the night music that pounded away in my secret self.
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