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Youth always tries to fill the void, an old man learns to live with it.
Mark Z. Danielewski
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Mark Z. Danielewski
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: March 5
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At the breakfast table we are footnoting everything that we read. We don't recognise it as such but we encounter an article in the newspaper and then suddenly we recall that a friend had a certain comment on that particular story, a certain bit of news that we saw on the television applies to that and we immediately assemble an idea of a story.
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Knowledge is hot water on wool. It shrinks time and space.
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One forgets that one is one. I must try to remember this.
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Here then at long last is my darkness. No cry of light, no glimmer, not even the faintest shard of hope to break free across the hold.
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Here then - the after math of meaning. A liftime finished between the space of two frames.
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Through all the windows I only see infinity.
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I want something else. I'm not even sure what to call it anymore except I know it feels roomy and it's drenched in sunlight and it's weightless and I know it's not cheap. Probably not even real
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You got a death wish, Truant?' Which was the thing that scared me. 'Cause maybe I did.
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So often I wonder whether it is my right to capitalize, as I feel, so often, on the grief of others. But then I justify, in my own particular thoughts, by feeling that I can contribute a little to the understanding of what others are going through then there is reason for doing it.
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My hands resemble some ancient tree: the roots that bind up the earth, the rock and the ceaselessly nibbling wordms.
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Some people reflect light, some deflect it, you by some miracle, seem to collect it.
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Back on shore everyone was pretty messed up, but the owner/captain was by far the worst off. He ended up drunk for a week, though the only thing he ever said was So? The boat's gone. So? Your mate's dead. So? Hey at least you're alive. So? An awful word but it does harden you. It hardened me.
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