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October 19, 2012 by at 3:40 pm

Have done some nosing around and happened upon this:

This morning over breakfast S. asked me why I looked so glum.

“Because,” I said, “everything that exists is born for no reason, carries on living through weakness, and dies by accident.”

“Jesus,” S. said. “Aren’t you ever off the clock?”

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6 Comments Filed Under: cut and paste, expat, fragments of philosophy

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  1. Quin Finnegan says:
    October 19, 2012 at 3:48 pm

    Whoa …

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  2. Quin Finnegan says:
    October 19, 2012 at 3:50 pm

    You might have been there first, but mine is the first they’ll see!

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  3. Quin Finnegan says:
    October 19, 2012 at 3:51 pm

    Okay, I like your excerpt better.

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  4. Big Jon Bully says:
    October 19, 2012 at 3:51 pm

    Great minds and all.

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  5. Angelico Nguyen, Esq., OP says:
    October 19, 2012 at 11:55 pm

    My grandparents met S. when she visited Vietnam.

    Certified!

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