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Monday, February 4, 2019
Reflections: I'm Still Alive
Just a quick note here to remind myself -- and the void into which these few words are hurled --
that I've survived another year, another birthday, and another long period of yearning for an end to it all.
I am an introverted blue collar pilgrim, surviving near the center of the continent, on the fringes of a shopworn civilization. I abide in rooms full of partially-read tomes, each bookmarked with the fragment of a shattered illusion.
Everything which is inspired, heroic or saintly is derived from contemplation.
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One--the smallest of numbers... That is the infinite. A number which increases thinks that it is getting nearer to infinity. It is getting further away from it. You have to stoop to rise.