pain flattens the world-its bubbles of bliss,its epiphanies,its upright sticks of day to day business- and shows us what seriousness is. And shows us, too, how those around us, Cannot get in; they canot share our being. Though men talk big and challenge silence with laughter, and women bring their endearing smiles and eyes of famouse mercy, these kinds of things slide away like rain beating on a filthy window. When pain interposes. What childrens pageant in guaze filled with skulls ballroom before the caped dark stranger commanded...freeze?? Life is worse than mere folly. We live within a cage where from escape annihilates the captive; this, too, pain leads us to consider anew.....
Reason for writing:
another one from updike this one is amazing cipher
Birth sign: Aries
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