Leave the rice on the floor where it belongs.<\/p>\n
Dreamland is not your home no matter how much it beckons to you.<\/p>\n
Day after day, you wear a surreal mask that you keep in the folds of your existence.<\/p>\n
Don’t let anyone else see it or you’ll vanish off the face of the earth<\/p>\n
and for what? Just to come home and write a speech that will never see the light of the day?<\/p>\n
No, there’s more than you can perceive in any given existentialist theory<\/p>\n
and when all is said and done, your memory will jump right into that grave<\/p>\n
as you struggle to discern what it was all for in the first place.<\/p>\n
Eleanor Rigby: the one who swam so far just to drown in shallow waters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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