As survivors and procreators, we unravel stories that at their root are not dissimilar from the habitual behaviors seen in nature. But as beings who know they will die we digress into episodes and epics that are altogether dissociated from the natural world. We may isolate this awareness, distract ourselves from it, anchor our minds far from its shores, and sublimate it as a motif in our sagas. Yet at no time and in no place are we protected from being tapped on the shoulder and reminded, __ou__e going to die, you know._ However much we try to ignore it, our consciousness haunts us with this knowledge. Our heads were baptized in the font of death; they are doused with the horror of moribundity.
Albert, I don__ know how long we can keep Sam involved at all,_ she said.__ou__e upset,_ Albert replied.__es, I__ upset. But that__ not the point. Sam is out of control. If we__e ever going to have a working system we may have to find someone else to play the role of savior.__lbert sighed. __strid, we don__ know what__ out there in the night. And maybe you__e right that Sam is out of control. But me? I__ really glad it__ him out there getting ready to face whatever it is.__lbert picked up his omnipresent notebook and left.To a now empty, silent room, Astrid said, __on__ die, Sam. Don__ die.
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Albert, I don__ know how long we can keep Sam involved at all,_ she said.__ou__e upset,_ Albert replied.__es, I__ upset. But that__ not the point. Sam is out of control. If we__e ever going to have a working system we may have to find someone else to play the role of savior.__lbert sighed. __strid, we don__ know what__ out there in the night. And maybe you__e right that Sam is out of control. But me? I__ really glad it__ him out there getting ready to face whatever it is.__lbert picked up his omnipresent notebook and left.To a now empty, silent room, Astrid said, __on__ die, Sam. Don__ die.
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