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“It is not too much to say that a lack of compelling and unpredictable heroic stories can deaden an individual’s and a culture’s overall creative life – can pulverize it right down to powder.”

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“She did not think it unusual, her choice of the feminine pronoun. Already she had identified herself with that tiny fragment parceled like an unripe variety of fruit. Now, in this moment, she was being carried up the hill within compression darkness, a stone in a peach, silent and terrified, the touch of the father against the coffin material outside; gentle and noiseless and firm inside.”

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“Mom? What do they do in the graveyard, Mom, under the ground? Just lay there?" "Lie there." "Lie there? Is that all they do? It doesn't sound like much fun." "For goodness' sake, it's not made out to be fun." "Why don't they jump up and run around once in a while if they get tired lying there? God's pretty silly--" "Martin!" "Well, you'd think He'd treat people better than to tell them to lie still for keeps. That's impossible. Nobody can do it! I tried once. Dog tries. I tell him, 'dead Dog!' He plays dead awhile, then gets sick and tired and wags his tail or opens one eye and looks at me, bored. Boy, I bet sometimes those graveyard people do the same, huh, Dog?" Dog barked. "Be still with that kind of talk!" said Mother. Martin looked off into space. "Bet that's exactly what they do," he said.”

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“Time is nothing but an illusion, but it also exists. It exists because we feel it as the duration. We feel sadness that runs a marathon and we live that marathon. We feel time of joy as liminal. Perhaps everything we feel as fine or great is short-lived because we are already looking ahead and seeing the marathon's scratch line, its beginning point.”

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