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All of us have a place in history. Mine is clouds.

— Richard Brautigan

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Probably the closest things to perfection are the huge absolutely empty holes that astronomers have recently discovered in space. If there's nothing there, how can anything go wrong?

There are seductions that should be in the Smithsonian Institute, right next to The Spirit of St. Louis.

I didn't know the full dimensions of forever, but I knew it was longer than waiting for Christmas to come.

Everybody wants to go to bed
with everybody else, they're
lined up for blocks, so I'll
go to bed with you. They won't
miss us.

I like to think
(it has to be!)
of a cybernetic ecology
where we are free of our labors
and joined back to nature,
returned to our mammal
brothers and sisters,
and all watched over
by machines of loving grace.

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I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past, — so good night!

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