“Minigolf,” she said with stone seriousness, “is a metaphor for life.” I smiled and said, “Oh, really?” “Yes. I mean, think about it….Do you take it seriously? Too seriously? Do you enjoy it? Do you keep careful score? Do you get upset when you lose? Do you cheat? And if you do cheat, how do you react when you’re busted? Are you sheepish? Sorry? Do you do it again?”
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“Your brain is you. All the rest is plumbing and scaffolding.”
“I needed nothing and was needed nowhere. I almost doubted I was alive.”
“This was a feeling I had often, the sense of a subtext.”
“She missed his nothing. It had felt like something.”
“It was grotesque and eerie, too strange of a dream.”