the last words

Sun, 30 Aug 2026 13:42:16 GMT

Posted by: spiralsheep

where he spent the next five months reading Lucretius, playing backgammon and falling into lakes.

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Wed, 19 Aug 2026 09:33:25 GMT

Posted by: spiralsheep

IF I CATCH YOU SMOKING IN HERE, YOU HAD BETTER BE ON FIRE, it said.

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Sat, 15 Aug 2026 18:09:31 GMT

Posted by: spiralsheep

[...] in the quiet chamber where Isaac Newton made his private experiments, splitting light through a prism and throwing rainbows into the minds of his age.

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Sat, 20 Jun 2026 23:42:13 GMT

Posted by: lumiosecity

Asking something I can't choose
Did I ever really love you?

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Wed, 10 Jun 2026 22:19:28 GMT

Posted by: lumiosecity

”Who here can tell me the speed of light?”
Twelve kids raise their claws.

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Wed, 10 Jun 2026 17:37:08 GMT

Posted by: spiralsheep

Normal is playing dress-up.

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Tue, 09 Jun 2026 01:11:29 GMT

Posted by: lumiosecity

There was some open space between what he knew and what he tried to believe, but nothing could be done about it, and if you can't fix it you've got to stand it.

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Fri, 05 Jun 2026 18:08:52 GMT

Posted by: jazzfish

[Not sure how I'm going to finish this part.]

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Thu, 04 Jun 2026 16:54:04 GMT

Posted by: spiralsheep

The world is a Gorgon.
It holds up its thousand ugly heads with their thousand writhing visages

Death or madness to look at too long

but your job is not to conquer it;

not to provide entertaining repartee,
not to revile yourself in shame.

Your job is to stay calm
Your job is to watch and take notes
To go on looking
Your job is to not be turned into stone.

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Thu, 28 May 2026 05:09:35 GMT

Posted by: spiralicious

But sometimes I wake from a deep sleep with my heart pounding, soaked in sweat, wondering how she's going to give it back to me next time.

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Tue, 26 May 2026 10:35:00 GMT

Posted by: spiralsheep

In me thou seest the twilight of such day
As after sunset fadeth in the west,
Which by and by black night doth take away,
Death's second self that seals up all in rest;

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Tue, 26 May 2026 04:52:31 GMT

Posted by: spiralicious

It started with an S but it almost definitely wasn't Steve.

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Sat, 23 May 2026 14:43:33 GMT

Posted by: spiralsheep

As I passed, they quacked softly but then decided it was probably nothing and settled down again for the evening.

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Sat, 23 May 2026 06:00:38 GMT

Posted by: spiralicious

That was the April that my father learned not to trust duck's.

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Thu, 21 May 2026 22:22:27 GMT

Posted by: spiralicious

I would have pulled away then, if I could; but small, firm fingers pulled me forward, unrelentingly, into the dark.

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Wed, 20 May 2026 21:47:16 GMT

Posted by: spiralicious

When a pixie has your number, they said, there's nothing else you can do.

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Tue, 19 May 2026 22:32:58 GMT

Posted by: spiralicious

Do not make too much noise the next time you walk in the hills.

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Tue, 19 May 2026 01:10:28 GMT

Posted by: spiralicious

They are saying that they have eaten everything.

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Sun, 17 May 2026 18:38:54 GMT

Posted by: spiralicious

"That's the spirit, " said his brother. And they touched hands as they walked away from the fire's orange embers, taking their stories with them back into the dark.

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Sun, 17 May 2026 12:23:34 GMT

Posted by: spiralsheep

its curls both a set of h&cuffs
& a love-knot to be tied.

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Sun, 17 May 2026 03:04:13 GMT

Posted by: spiralicious

All of these things are true.

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Sun, 17 May 2026 01:12:06 GMT

Posted by: jazzfish

"I'll run the numbers."

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Sat, 16 May 2026 01:07:55 GMT

Posted by: spiralicious

One day she won't love you, too. It will break your heart.

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Fri, 15 May 2026 02:37:54 GMT

Posted by: spiralicious

Whenever it rains you will think of her.

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Wed, 13 May 2026 17:33:06 GMT

Posted by: spiralicious

This never happened.

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