"For me, it is as though at every moment, the actual world had completely lost its actuality. As though there was nothing there; as though there were no foundations for anything or as though it had escaped us. Only one thing, however, is vividly present: the constant tearing of the veil of appearances; the constant deconstruction of everything in construction. Nothing hold together, everything falls apart." -Eugene Ionesco "Try to imagine a life without timekeeping. You probably can't. You know the month, the year, the day of the week. There is a clock on your wall or the dashboard of your car. You have a schedule, a calendar, a time for diner or a movie. Yet, all around you, timekeeping is ignored. Birds are not late. A dog does not check its watch. Deer do not fret over passing birthdays. Man alone measures time. Man alone chimes the hour And, because of this, man alone suffers a paralyzing fear that no other creature endures. A fear of time running out. -Mitch Albom "Should you happen to be possessed of a verbal acuity coupled with a relentless hair trigger humor and surface cheer sparkling over a chronic melancholia and loneliness-- a grotesquely caricatured version of your deepest self which you trot out of the slightest provocation to endearing and glib comic effect, thus rendering you the kind of fellow who is beloved by all and loved by none, all of it to distract, however fleetingly, from the cold and dead-faced truth that with each passing year you face the unavoidable certainty of a solitary future in which you will perish one day while vainly attempting the Heimlich maneuver on yourself over the back of the kitchen chair -- then this confirmation that you have triumphed again and managed to gull yet another mark, except this time it was the one person you'd hoped might be immune to your ever-creakier, puddle-shadow, sideshow-baker variation on 'adorable' even though you'd been launching this campaign weekly with a single-minded concentration from day one-- well, it conjures up feelings that are best described as mixed, to say the least." -David Rakoff |
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