I can't say it like I write it...I can't write it like I think it...I can't think it like I feel it...and I don't feel a thing.
Wednesday, September 24, 2003
i was just thinking about the big anthrax scare after 9/11...and the y2k bug scare...and all the other things people overreact about...and i laughed...and thought to myself, "people are really ridiculously stupid."
He heard the words drag out. He felt them pull out of his mouth like freight cars, jangling, backing up on each other, grating to a halt, sliding, clinching back, jarring, and then suddenly stopping as roughly as they had begun. It was over. --Flannery O'Connor, "The Barber"
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