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"Say, is that the moon rising over there?"
"I'm sure I don't know. I'm a stranger here myself."
—Purple Parrot, 1923.
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"Meet my friend -- the Night." From The Instructor, 1969.
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The only way out is:
- through dreams of flying
- to develop a ‘whatever’ mentality
- to always ask why
- to roll a 1 on another turn
- to lie in it
- back the way you came
- to surrender
- a long, hard climb
- to pick up the pieces and move on
- inside a bottle
- through the valve of the cocoon
- to fine-tune the corrections
- a total and complete disclosure of who we are and what we’ve done
- in or within or down or up or through
- to run
- to train the mind to take refuge in the present
- a small hole
- through the killer ants
- to buckle down this storm
- to be transferred
- to come undone
- to go back and restore the old order
- to get out of the way
- to impose appropriate constraints
- to watch it pass through
- to take the demon's tower challenge
- on a stretcher
- saying rhymes
- rebirth
- to crawl up the other side and through a small opening under the stigma
- to grin and giggle and repeat the same old jokes over and over again
- to discard the doctrine
- to forgive and keep forgiving until there is nothing left in that place but compassion and understanding
- a gift from the gods
- being made plainer every day
- either to declare ourselves in crisis, go crazy, or diligently dedicate ourselves to the task of finding our own emancipation
[Tidbits gathered through the course of our search. See Bullet Lists.]
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"The voices of people whose reality is far away, something in another life, part of another fable, just as your reality is part of another fable, and all of it part of the only fable, and the only history." From A Special Announcement by William Saroyan, in One Hundred Non-Royalty Radio Plays, 1941.
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