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"On this bridge,"
Lorca warns,
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"life is not a dream.
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" Beware and beware and...
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beware."
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And so many think
because "then" happens,
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" now" isn't.
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But didn't I mention the ongoing "wow"
is happening right now?
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We are all coauthors
of this dancing exuberance...
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where even our inabilities
are having a roast.
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We are the authors
of ourselves,
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coauthoring a gigantic
Dostoyevsky novel starring clowns.
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This entire thing we're involved
with called the world...
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is an opportunity to exhibit
how exciting alienation can be.
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Life is a matter of a miracle
that is collected over time...
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by moments flabbergasted
to be in each other's presence.
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The world is an exam to see if we can
rise into the direct experiences.
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Our eyesight is here as a test
to see if we can see beyond it.
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Matter is here as a test
for our curiosity.
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Doubt is here as an exam
for our vitality.
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Thomas Mann wrote that he would
rather participate in life...
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than write
a hundred stories.
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Giacometti was once
run down by a car,
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and he recalled
falling into a lucid faint,
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a sudden exhilaration,
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as he realized at last
something was happening to him.
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An assumption develops that
you cannot understand life
and live life simultaneously.
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I do not agree entirely. Which is
to say I do not exactly disagree.
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I would say that life
understood is life lived.
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But the paradoxes bug me,