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Since pain is not a break of rules:
an agony is ability of flesh:
and man is but a guinea pig of pain.
He only needs either his own to refresh
or misery’s pale.
J. Brodsky. “Conversation with celestial being”
- You seem not coming anymore, just drifting somewhere nearby.
- See, and you are saying: ‘There.’ Aloe Vera…
- I have remembered: in that company you mentioned, there should be one derisive talent who has painted our current situation better than we both have.
“Don’t leave the room; pretend that you have a cold.
Four walls and a chair entice like nothing else in the world.
Why leave the place that you’ll surely return to late in
the night, as you were, only more – mutilated? 12
- There was another one – although I have not noticed him in that company – In his words there are two ways of returning home: One – not to leave it at all; the other – to circle the world and arrive back. 13
- It must have been voiced before the catastrophe. We have invented the third one: get on the way but at the first hang up – fear, stumbling, straying – rush back.
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- Are you waiting for something from me now?
- Bah! As if I have nothing better to do but pushing you.
- You know, you are becoming somewhat like a drug on me…
- Now you are talking! So, you are ready to sort it out on your own?
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- Well then… In this case, I would rather…
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