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While asleep, fully experiencing the life we miss, during the covid-19 pandemic.
In the sunlight, he was walking freely among other people, everyone smiling at each other, holding hands. A woman approached him, oh my God, she was so beautiful, and she looked into his eyes and kissed him. - These were his Covivid dreams, every night, and he found them thrilling.
hey babe, u fell asleep last night with ur phone open to ur txt messages. dunno who 'tomorrow night my place' is, but u may as well stay there 'cause ydtm.
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The historic root of human dysfunction. The sense that each of us belongs to a group - or tribe - from which we derive our idea of who we are, what we call ourselves, what we believe, whom else is a member and who is excluded.
Whether rooting for a sports team or voting along party lines, we divide ourselves into 'us' and 'them', as humans have done for millennia. It leads us to war. At a minimum we endure a chronic state of para-warfare.
He could not fathom how she had voted for Biden! She in turn looked with speechless amazement at his mindless devotion to ... she could not bring herself to utter that reviled name! Neither could ever change the other's mind by an inch. They were exemplars of tribal identity, each believing their side was right, the other side wrong, the finding of middle ground a fantasy for Springsteen/Jeep commercials during the Super Bowl - itself a tribal enactment - and nothing more.
Being easily brought to tears by the sufferings of the world.
The pain, the hunger, the ceaseless cruelties endured by so many, for no one's gain, immobilized her. She knew she was emotionally tragile and could never be indifferent to the grief of others.
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The day and night sharing of life during the pandemic, shut off from the known world, making home start to feel like Middle Earth.
Having been under one roof for months, losing track of the outside world, she gradually began to think of their relationship as cohobbitation, each of them now slightly different than normally human.
To take an immaculately beautiful woman and, through blind applications of high-contrast streaks, razor-straight bangs, sharp 45-degree layered angles - acrylic 'fingernails' which soon cover only half the actual nail and look like what exactly? - pounds of makeup, all of which have zero to do with the real woman, her proportions, natural coloration or her perfect, essential beauty, and have everything to do with a state-wide communal aesthetic, n' toin huh intuh a nudduh cookie cuttuh Joisy Goil.
Underneath it all was the most beautiful woman he had ever seen or would ever see. Beautiful beyond words. All that had to be done was to simply reverse the NewJersification to which she had , stunningly, submitted .
To take an immaculately beautiful woman and, through blind applications of high-contrast streaks, razor-straight bangs, sharp 45-degree layered angles - phony fingernails which soon cover only half the natural nail and look like what exactly? - pounds of makeup, all of which which have zero to do with the real woman, her proportions, natural coloration or perfect essential beauty, and have everything to do with a state-wide communal aesthetic, n' toin huh intuh anuthuh cookie cuttuh Joisy Goil.
Underneath it all was the most beautiful woman he had ever seen or would ever see. Beautiful beyond words. All that had to be done was to simply reverse the NewJersification to which she had , stunningly, submitted .