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We've become such linear creatures, such sequentialists that we're only really concerned with the future, the present being the only time we have to consider the future, the past already gone and out of the way. billetdoux told me once, as i watched Charlotte dancing with one of my girlfriends, that i looked like a man who was constantly waiting for something, for the next thing.
truckeratlas Diary Entry truckeratlas 2004
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The art was simple by which they secured their billetdoux from the public eye, but it sufficed.
Tales and Sketches 1835
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