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American dream, a spouse, a brace of children, cuddly pets, coffee-table books, rusted skeleton keys, plastic cauliflower bags, business cards of business-card printers, a mound of used airmail envelopes. Old house on moving day, all echoes and loneliness.Brian DAmbrosio
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The stony silence of death, trapped by the original gravity of our sins, and the perpetuity of a long, leisurely yawn, a world where blood and bone no longer matter.Brian DAmbrosio
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Life, perhaps less a document than an impression, conveyed through partial glances, stream-of-consciousness juxtapositions, unpredictable rhythms, a collage of sound, a conscientious diarist, a career of blackmail and scandal culminated in murder, a blind man with a will of iron and a nervous system of gossamer.Brian DAmbrosio
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Life is calmness with squabbling, accumulating traditions and self-consciousness. elaborate meals, medicine, law, pretty pictures unspoiled, rocking the cradle and holding the hammer, impressive skies of gray and blue, believing in what we can’t settle, the mystery of iniquity, the absolutely sincere predictions of fools, lighter moods like these.Brian DAmbrosio
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Rum is tonic that clarifies the vision, and sets things in true perspective.Brian DAmbrosio
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Trying to change someone only makes them cling to their existing behavior with brutish, primal force.Brian DAmbrosio