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the happiness that attends disaster.

the saddness inspired by failing restraunts.

Created on 2008-02-09 22:14:43 (#14909744), last updated 2009-03-08

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Name:	I wish that I knew what I know now

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When he told the truth it never sounded like the truth but it felt like the truth. It sounded like a song from far away, in another language, poorly translated and delivered haltingly through a long tunnel filled with cottonballs. It sounded like he was telling you about the song that was inside your own head already.

I liked him but I was afraid of him. Wise people steered clear of us. People who didn’t know any better would sit with us, talk with us, then suddenly startle and back away. His joy was too big to get your head around, his wonder at the world was too grand to bear. And his sadnesses were so small and light and slippery that you couldn’t hold onto them. They would leave a breeze in your hand that you couldn’t grasp, and then your hand wouldn’t be able to close all the way, left open, left just slightly open enough to feel the silk of the world moving through it, lightly, lightly, free of your intention, outside the comfort of your own desire.

There is a knot of self but the rope that we are all made of refused to hold for him. Useless rope, but rope all the same.

--- richard siken, 'the story of Bartlett'.

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