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That he must always be lovable, in need of her and never, as now, the hovering statistical cherub who's never quite been to hell but speaks as if he's one of the most fallen.

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The Lord's angel, Gebrail, dictated the Koran to Mohammed the Lord's Prophet. What a joke if all that holy book were only twenty-three years of listening to the desert. A desert which has no voice.

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You go from dream to dream inside me. You have passage to my last shabby corner, and there, among the debris, you've found life. I'm no longer sure which of all the words, images, dreams or ghosts are 'yours' and which are 'mine.' It's past sorting out.

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Love with your mouth shut, help without breaking your ass or publicizing it: keep cool, but care.

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I'm sorry. That's the Monte Carlo Fallacy. No matter how many have fallen inside a particular square, the odds remain the same as they always were. Each hit is independent of all the others. Bombs are not dogs. No link. No memory. No conditioning.

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But a hard-on, that's either there, or it isn't. Binary, elegant. The job of observing it can even be done by a student.

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Perhaps its familiarity rendered it temporarily invisible to you.

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What sort of an age is this where a man becomes one's enemy only when his back is turned?

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A woman is only half of something there are usually two sides to.

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She's almost got it; nearly understands his Poisson equation...

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