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Quite a strange man, thought James, watching him go – but what a relief to discover he still contained the capacity to be taken by surprise.
Sarah Perry • Enlightenment
And but so the narrow-faced pestidor, poised over his compote, reacts to the sudden and quivering and doubtless low-on-his-list-of-expected-appearances appearance of the big wicked Dexter target arrow with a shocked spasm that sends Magda the flight attendant’s morning brandy straight into her lap.
David Foster Wallace • Girl With Curious Hair
when I came home and saw what the bear had done.
Benjamin Percy • Refresh, Refresh: Stories
Unfortunately, she was unaware of its dangers and failed to protect herself; a situation that contributed to the development of her cancer and to her early death.
Dawn Lester • What Really Makes You Ill?: Why Everything You Thought You Knew About Disease Is Wrong
🃏 Card 8: “The End of Pretending”
Keywords: Radical honesty, resignation, death as gravity
Fool Aspect: The full-circle return: Fool becomes Crone
Summary: In the book’s final passages, Didion no longer tries to disguise her pain. She is unadorned. The Fool now carries no hope of flight—only memory, and the strange clarity of waiting to die.
Pull
Established business?” I HAVE BEEN GOING FOR SOME TIME, YES, said Death.
Terry Pratchett • Mort: A Discworld Novel
Death was funny like that. It lingered like an hourglass, grains of sand slipping through with unstoppable momentum. Pleasures must be seized, opportunities taken.