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I'm a very neat monster.

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Jeff Lindsay
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: July 14
Novelist
Playwright
Writer
Miami
Florida
Jeffry P. Freundlich
Jeffry P. Lindsay
Neat
Monster
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This was just no fun. I wanted my brain back.
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IN MY LIFELONG STUDY OF HUMAN BEINGS, I HAVE FOUND that no matter how hard they might try, they have found no way yet to prevent the arrival of Monday morning. And they do try, of course, but Monday always comes, and all the drones have to scuttle back to their dreary workaday lives of meaningless toil and suffering.
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No big deal. We all have blood in us, the trick is keeping it inside.
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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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Really now: If you can't get me my newspaper on time, how can you expect me to refrain from killing people?
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Life teaches us that human thought almost never walks hand in hand with logic, and it is usually counterproductive to raise the point.
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Me, feeling. What a concept.
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I nodded with genuine synthetic sympathy.
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For the first time I could remember, I felt weak, woozy and stupid— like a human-being. Like a very small and helpless human-being.
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When faced with people who have very limited conversational skills and no apparent desire to cultivate any it's always easier to simply go along.
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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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...she opened the door very slowly and carefully, half hiding behind it, as if badly frightened of what might be waiting for her on the other side. And considering that it was me waiting, this showed rare common sense.
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Because I am an inhuman monster, I tend to be logical.
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Or was he saying, Hi! Wanna play? And I did. Of course I did.
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The key to a happy life is to have accomplishments to be proud of and purpose to look forward to, and at the moment I had both. How wonderful it was to be me.
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What do you want a clock for?” “To find out what time it is,” I said. “I think that’s the usual purpose.
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I am unlovable...I have tried to involve myself in other people, in relationships, and even - in my sillier moments - in love. But it doesn't work. Something in me is broken or missing and sooner or later the other person catches me Acting or one of Those Nights comes along.
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Our universe is ruled by random whim, inhabited by people who laugh at logic.
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Feeling - what authentic human fun!
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Rectory always sounded to me like a place where you would find a proctologist.
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