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The integrity of my sleep has been forever compromised, sir.

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Psychotics, say what you want about them, tend to make the first move.

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For me, boviscopophobia (=the morbid fear of being seen as bovine) is an even stronger motive than semi-agoraphobia for staying on the ship when we're...more

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Let me put it this way: You cannot live in the world without being in pain, spiritual and physical pain. We have developed mechanisms to deal with the...more

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AN ACADEMIC DEFINITION of Lynchian might be that the term "refers to a particular kind of irony where the very macabre and the very mundane combine in...more

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So tonight to shush you how about if I say I have administrative bones to pick with God, Boo. I'll say God seems to have a kind of laid-back managemen...more

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Mary had a little lamb, its fleece electrostatic / And everywhere Mary went, the lights became erratic.

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It's always seemed a little preposterous that Hamlet, for all his paralyzing doubt about everything, never once doubts the reality of the ghost. Never...more

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But he’d also gotten a personal prickly chill all over from his own thinking. He could do the dextral pain the same way: Abiding. No one single instan...more

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You decide. You be the judge. It says You are welcome regardless of severity. Severity is in the eye of the sufferer, it says. Pain is pain.

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Something they seem to omit to mention in Boston AA when you're new and out of your skull with desperation and ready to eliminate your map and they te...more

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In short, not only was it surprising to be greeted in person with such enthusiastic words, but it was doubly surprising when the person reciting these...more

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Because here's something else that's weird but true: in the day-to day trenches of adult life, there is actually no such thing as atheism. There is no...more

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There are these two young fish swimming along and they happen to meet an older fish swimming the other way, who nods at them and says "Morning, boys. ...more