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Nicholas was older than sin, and his beard could grow no whiter. He wanted to die. 
The dwarfish natives of the Arctic caverns did not speak his language, but conversed in their own, twittering tongue, conducted incomprehensible rituals, when they were not actually working in the factories.

Once every year they forced him, sobbing and protesting, ( Read more... )

Grammatically conscientious Allie at her best :)  

 “Insomniflows”  - the artist Paul Davis maps the dark and desperate movements of an insomniac night.
 

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You have to be always drunk. That's all there is to it-it's the only way. So as not to feel the horrible burden of time that breaks your back and bends you to the earth, you have to be continually drunk.

But on what? Wine, poetry or virtue, as you wish. But be drunk.

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