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Post by Punkrabbitt on Oct 10, 2016 19:40:22 GMT -9
"Remembering's dangerous. I find the past such a worrying, anxious place. "The past tense," I suppose you'd call it. Memory's so treacherous. One moment you're lost in a carnival of delights, with poignant childhood aromas, the flashing neon of puberty, all that sentimental candy floss... the next, it leads you somewhere you don't want to go... somewhere dark and cold, filled with damp, ambiguous shapes of things you'd hoped were forgotten. Memories can be vile, repulsive little brutes. Like children, I suppose.
But can we live without them? Memories are what our reason is based upon. If we cannot face them, we deny reason itself! Although why not? We aren't contractually obligated to rationality. There is no sanity clause. So when you find yourself locked onto an unpleassant train of thought, heading for the places in your past where the screaming is unbearable, remember there's always madness. Madness is the emergency exit..."
-Alan Moore, "The Killing Joke," 1988
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