2019-01-05 4:31:37 pm by TheDevilsGuru in category General

I realized these were all the snapshots which our children would look at someday with wonder, thinking their parents had lived smooth, well-ordered lives and got up in the morning to walk proudly on the sidewalks of life, never dreaming the raggedy madness and riot of our actual lives, our actual night, the hell of it, the senseless emptiness.

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2019-01-05 4:29:21 pm by TheDevilsGuru in category General

I was surprised, as always, by how easy the act of leaving was, and how good it felt. The world was suddenly rich with possibility.

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2019-01-05 4:23:51 pm by TheDevilsGuru in category General

 a girl I loved who was going the opposite direction in this too-big world.”

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2018-12-31 12:02:15 am by TheDevilsGuru in category General

ʺProgressʺ is then enthroned on the altars of fashion, and as the hectic worshipers are asked, ʺProgress towards what?ʺ The tolerant answer comes back, ʺMore progress.ʺ All the while sane men are wondering how there can be progress without direction and how there can be direction without a fixed point. And because they speak of a ʺfixed point,ʺ they are said to be behind...

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2018-12-30 10:27:12 pm by TheDevilsGuru in category General

If chimpanzees have consciousness, if they are capable of abstractions, do they not have what until now has been described as "human rights"? How smart does a chimpanzee have to be before killing him constitutes murder? What further properties must he show before religious missionaries must consider him worthy of attempts at conversion?

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