Diving Into the Wreck

“Our wine cooled in the water and I watched my sons, half-men half-children, testing their part in a world almost archaic so precious by this time that merely to step in pure water or stare into clear air is to feel a spasm of pain.”

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“I have always wondered about the leftover energy, water rushing down a hill long after the rains have stopped”

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“They are dumping animal blood into the sea to bring up the sharks. Sometimes every aperture of my body leaks blood. I don't know whether to pretend that this is natural.”

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“The thing that arrests me is how we are composed of molecules (he showed me the figure in the paving stones) arranged without our knowledge and consent”

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“I think of Norman Morrison the Buddhists of Saigon the black teacher last week who put himself to death to waken guilt in hearts too numb to get the message in a world masculinity made unfit for women or men”

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“They say there are ions in the sun neutralizing magnetic fields on earth Some way to explain what this week has been, and the one before it!”

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“I dreamed I called you on the telephone to say: Be kinder to yourself but you were sick and would not answer The waste of my love goes on this way trying to save you from yourself”

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“The pact that we made was the ordinary pact of men & women in those days I don't know who we thought we were that our personalities could resist the failures of the race Lucky or unlucky, we didn't know the race had failures of that order and that we were going to share them Like everybody else, we thought of ourselves as special”

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“Next year it would have been 20 years and you are wastefully dead who might have made the leap we talked, too late, of making which I live now not as a leap but a succession of brief, amazing movements each one making possible the next”

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“If I am flesh sunning on rock if I am brain burning in fluorescent light if I am dream like a wire with fire throbbing along it if I am death to man I have to know it”

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“Self-hatred, a monotone in the mind.”

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