He’d hack his own hand off it could be somebody else’s fault.

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She was so buoyant, such an unalloyed spirit, that she provoked resentment in some, who fell by default into a relationship with her akin to that with their parents, for whom they were endlessly demanding.  Such was the power she exuded, of simple rightness in the world and protectiveness, that it produced in them a…

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for the sake of blood stew

Sevi said she took blood from someone, not in our family, and that he was angry at her and chased her to her home, but she rang the buzzer and mama and papa ran down the stairs and brought her in and she was safe. She used the blood for a stew with vegetables. To…

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some mild spotting yesterday, sugi said, pink and brown. Is it nothing less than an absorbing selfishness, a greed for progeny I’m guilty of. Can’t it be seen in a less accusing light, something okay to want.

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possibly true: nothing is cliche that is not copied if so, it is wrong to attach judgment to the primitive where you find it. Reserve your disdain for the aping of it. For “enemies of the first idea” as WS would put it.

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the eyes of a drunk never wide never shut the lids dipping to kiss moth wings on water

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Rebecca pregnant again. Stroked my whiskers in bed this AM to wake me up to show me the indicator. She’s technically at 5 weeks. Fingers crossed.

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Is it that you are appalled at the baseness of mercenaries because you have been looking to find nobility there (in your enemy), or appalled, stung in some way by the baseness of your motives in looking.

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21 Grams

Despite the engaging tug of the fragmented storytelling that with some artfulness keeps your interest, making a puzzlemaster of you the viewer, the film was a surprisingly bald preposterous melodrama.  Certain scenes, such as the one you find yourself expectant to see, when Sean Penn reveals he has the heart of Naomi Watt’s dead husband,…

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