For that is the curious quality of the discotheque after you have gone there a long time: in the midst of all the lights, and music, the bodies, the dancing, the drugs, you are stiller than still within, and though you go through the motions of dancing you are thinking a thousand disparate things. You find yourself listening to the lyrics, and you wonder what these people around you are doing. They seemed crazed to you. You stand there on a floor moving your hips, wondering if there is such a thing as love, and conscious for the very first time that it is three-twenty-five and the night only half-over. You put the popper to your nostril, you put a hand out to lightly touch the sweaty, rigid stomach of the man dancing next to you, your own chest is streaming with sweat in that hot room, and you are thinking, as grave as a judge: What will I do with my life? What can any man do with his life? And you finally don’t know where to rest your eyes. You don’t know where to look, as you dance. You have been expelled from the communion of the saints. .Andrew Holleran
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In the midst of all the lights and music, the bodies and dancing, we are stiller than still within. We dance as if we were dancing for the first time in our lives. We go through the motions but we are thinking a thousand different things. We feel something for those around us, something we have never experienced before and we wonder what is going on in their minds.
We feel as if we are lost in space and our hearts run wild with confusion, but we know for the first time that it is morning and the night is only half over. We put a hand out to touch someone else’s stomach, or put a popper to our nostrils. We want to find out what love feels like and we realize that it is three o’clock in the morning.
We finally don’t know where to rest our eyes; we don’t know where to look as we dance. We have been expelled from the communion of saints and now we can only think how much better off we would be if we were anywhere but here.
Source: Dancer From The Dance
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