.. . I had found the edge. The place where you unstrap all your fastenings to the earth, to what you are what you have been, where you flame out on the edge of the spheres, and the sun and moon become eclipsed and the world below is as dead and remote and without interest as if it were glazed with ice. James Lee Burke
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In this quote, Virginia Woolf describes the sensation of standing at the edge of a cliff. In her mind, standing at the edge of a cliff is a place where you can see everything that has ever happened and everything that is going to happen. It is where you can see yourself as both a person and as a thing. It is a place where you feel as if you are no longer a part of the world around you, as if you have become detached from what it means to be human.

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