reaction to a perceived violation
"Reaction to a Perceived Violation," August 30, 2022 (#242)
title from "The Stand: Appropriate This" by scrola (October 24, 2020)
She, A History of Adventure by H. Rider Haggard (1886)
Her by Spike Jonze (2013)
Him Her Him Again The End of Him by Patricia Marx (2006)
last line from She: Understanding Feminine Psychology by Robert A. Johnson (1976)
Reaction to a Perceived Violation
What I have left you will enable you to live a life of learned leisure
watching the ad. We hear soft, new age, uplifting electronica music
kicking around her feet so the polish would dry faster. Do you hate it
within ten or a dozen fathoms of the boat, much to Job's alarm?
I’m trying to get this little alien kid to help me find my ship so I
was in my Ugly American phase. Also, though I didn't say it, my ugly
thong fell from Job's hand at that moment, and, by a most happy
choice, that's my home. Where do you live? In a house
quite correct, though, in your assumption that no news is
till the world is dead, and the worlds beyond the world
can over-think everything and find a million ways to doubt,
a full house at your funeral is one of the advantages of dying,
mirroring every experience back into our own consciousness.
From Endless Forms by Seirian Sumner (2022)
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