The moon’s now occulted ‘twixt the earth and the sun.
She’ll serve a thin slice to restart the fun.
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I may be able to afford a luxury item, but there’s nowhere for me to buy the sophistication needed to enjoy it.
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The recipient of tough love should know that nothing will tenderize that love like his penitent tears.
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I used to feel anxiety entering a roomful of strangers. No more. I just jump on my phone like everyone else.
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People on public transportation are so wrapped up in their phones that the flasher has become obsolete.
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Our funeral provides a carpet on which to display our virtues and a rug under which to sweep our faults.
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Drink cuts the legs off tomorrow morning and props them under tonight.
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Is football a game of skill? The shape of the ball insures it’s a game of chance.
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To find things more easily in this our daily mess, I walk around backwards: seeing more when speed is less.
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We all have this secret power of invisibility which allows us to view life vicariously.
It’s called television.
Sophistication: "... having, revealing, or proceeding from a great deal of worldly experience and knowledge of fashion and culture." There isn't a more sophisticated person in the whole of eastern Palmville. Who are you trying to kid?
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DeleteOr as Emerson said, "Great genial power, one would almost say, consists in not being original at all; in being altogether receptive; in letting the world do all, and suffering the spirit of the hour to pass unobstructed through the mind."
ReplyDeleteSquibs are an alert, receptive form of seeing: the opposite of television; the daily mess wrought clear; unsophistication as secret power.
Again I say, gawrsh
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