a heartbreaking work of staggering genius
"you have what i can afford to give...i give you all of the best things i have, and while these things are things i like, memories that i treasure, good or bad, like the pictures of my family on my walls i can show them to you without diminishing them. i can afford to give you everything...we identify our secrets, our pasts and their blotches, with our identity, that revealing our habits or losses or deeds somehow makes one less oneself. buts its just the opposite, more is more is more-more giving, more bleeding."
"oh but i am not going to fix you, or any of you people. i tried about a million times to fix you, but it was wrong for me to want to save you because i only wanted to eat you to make me stronger, i only wanted to devour all of you, I was cancer-oh but i do this for you. don't you see i do this for you? i have done this all for you. i pretend that i do not but i do...there is nowhere i stop and you begin."
"have it. take it from me. do with it what you will...make it useful. this is like making electricity from dirt, it is almost too good to be believed, that we can make beauty from this stuff."
"oh but i am not going to fix you, or any of you people. i tried about a million times to fix you, but it was wrong for me to want to save you because i only wanted to eat you to make me stronger, i only wanted to devour all of you, I was cancer-oh but i do this for you. don't you see i do this for you? i have done this all for you. i pretend that i do not but i do...there is nowhere i stop and you begin."
"have it. take it from me. do with it what you will...make it useful. this is like making electricity from dirt, it is almost too good to be believed, that we can make beauty from this stuff."