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Karen Salmansohn's avatar

Consciousness is slippery. Like trying to staple fog.

This made my brain feel tickled in the best way. Loved the lineup: fantasy elves, personality doom, a train to nowhere, and a black hole that refuses to suck. Like chaos with a syllabus.

Also… please feed Steve soon.

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Jonny Thomson's avatar

One grain of rice per word edited.

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Karen Salmansohn's avatar

Now worried about Steve’s electrolyte levels.

Also... I’ve been quietly enjoying your writing for a while now. Consider this my public reveal.

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Jonny Thomson's avatar

Oh you're lovely! Thank you so much.

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HJHarris's avatar

Interesting, even intriguing. Makes me glad to be alive.

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Swaraj Sharma's avatar

really informative and the use of strategic image placement is fantastic!!

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BOCN's avatar

Arthur Schopenhauer was a polygamist who also wrote:

"In London alone there are 80,000 prostitutes. What are they but the women, who, under the institution of monogamy have come off worse? Theirs is a dreadful fate: they are human sacrifices offered up on the altar of monogamy."

And:

"In our part of the world where monogamy is the rule, to marry means to halve one's rights and double one's duties. Now, when the laws gave women equal rights with man, they ought to have also endowed her with a masculine intellect."

Being the pessimist that he was, it's no surprise he wound up single. Or maybe he was on to something...?

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