"If even a captive slave or a maidservant can commit suicide, how much more so for me, who cannot help but be driven by moral imperatives to disdain mere survival ? The reason I suffered in silence and lived on in disgrace, refusing to retreat even when mired in filth...

"In their terminal structures, narrations are rehearsals for death", Steiner, _Real Presences_
-- Trying, with their ending, to provide a "satisfying death"; a feeling of accomplishment, of wholeness, such as one would wish to experience in death, such as one fears not to.

Just wanted to share this today:

These are my friends, apparently.

"I told Lips and Teddy that before that night in the convertible the man thought that he would never be able to get it up with a working girl, that he needed the complete articulated story of their meeting, dinners, whispers, glances, (...)
#quote

"you kissed her eyes, her nose, her chin, her throat, through inexpertness and excitement not always hitting the precise spot, but aim is unimportant when it’s shrapnel."
#quote #mysteryquote

‘To be eaten by us is a great honor,’ the young man explained in nearly perfect French, while his father and other family members looked on, intently conveying that his words were the apt representation of their collective sentiment.
#teaser #firstsentence #shortstory

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«Michel Barnier semble répondre au premier critère que nous avions réclamé, c’est-à-dire de pouvoir s’adresser au Rassemblement national», réagissait Marine Le Pen jeudi, après la nomination du Républicain au poste de Premier ministre. Nickel, alors 🙂 lesjours.fr/obsessio...