Especially on rainy nights like this, they would congregate under the bridge, all the boys from nowhere, the boys who lived nowhere, who had nowhere else to go.
We can__ handle absence anymore, anything is better than the blankness; the quiet of nothingness. People fight to put images of love and hate _ both equally nauseating _ between themselves and the blank space that surrounds us. It__ the only escape, and yet we feel the pressure of the blankness pressing in against us, forcing the violent display ever closer, forcing us to demand images brighter, more graphic until they scorch our senses badly enough that we no longer feel the void and the images become our reality. But it__ ok. Most people don__ need to fear absence anymore _ we__e blinded, permanently. There__ no need to seek out the light show that protects us either; inoculation precedes the sickness now. Sedation isn__ an option, it__ a shared reality. Most people don__ see the beauty of the system, how perfect our salvation is.
****: The Anatomy of Melancholy
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We can__ handle absence anymore, anything is better than the blankness; the quiet of nothingness. People fight to put images of love and hate _ both equally nauseating _ between themselves and the blank space that surrounds us. It__ the only escape, and yet we feel the pressure of the blankness pressing in against us, forcing the violent display ever closer, forcing us to demand images brighter, more graphic until they scorch our senses badly enough that we no longer feel the void and the images become our reality. But it__ ok. Most people don__ need to fear absence anymore _ we__e blinded, permanently. There__ no need to seek out the light show that protects us either; inoculation precedes the sickness now. Sedation isn__ an option, it__ a shared reality. Most people don__ see the beauty of the system, how perfect our salvation is.
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