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how utterly miscellaneous the spread was

People weren’t eating sufficiently. In an inspired state I got up and began a commedia, wherein I rifled our larder for every canned and jarred delicacy I had been hoarding, these constituting the analog to Nelson’s Riesling, undoubtedly. I’m not absolutely certain I knew what I was doing. But it w…

—p.294 Mating ACQUISITIVE LOVE (251) by Norman Rush
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I am going to be old flesh someday

[...] I like him to praise my body but also hate it because it makes me want to scream that I am going to be old flesh someday and then what?

—p.260 ACQUISITIVE LOVE (251) by Norman Rush
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time is cruel and nothing stays the same

[...] My utopia is equal love, equal love between people of equal value, although value is an approximation for the word I want. Why is it so difficult? Assortative mating shows there has to be some drive in nature to bring equals together in the toils of love, so why even in the most enlightened …

—p.250 TSAU (165) by Norman Rush
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I feel I should probably say everything

My story is turning into the map in Borges exactly the size of the country it represents, but I feel I should probably say everything.

—p.245 TSAU (165) by Norman Rush
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I want you to last forever

[...] I hesitantly asked Nelson if he wouldn’t wear his kepi when he was out in the sun. He owned one, I knew. He was normally out in the noonday sun bareheaded, except in the depths of summer. He looked at me. The back of your neck worries me, I said. It looked cured. You probably don’t wear the t…

—p.240 TSAU (165) by Norman Rush