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Maybe they'd have to hold each other when it rose, all organe and full and close. Maybe that's where our romantic notions about the moon first came from. Two people holding each other to keep their hearts from breaking, because everybody they knew was dying in the cold rocks and dust piles a quarter million miles away...
The Brothers K
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torsdag, november 03, 2005
Here's an interesting thought.
Your entire relationship with someone could be encapsulated digitally on a single file on a computer.
That seems intensely tragic to me, like somehow it reduces a meaningful, multi-layered interaction into a series of flipped bits, with a finite beginning and end. My entire relationship is a single document. How can that possibly capture the depth of emotions and range of events that happened over that time?
But then again, how is that any different than a handwritten journal? The visual of empty pages is a comfort, whisperings of things to come, blank pages of hope. There's simply no digital equivalent.
Just mulling on that for a while.
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