March 10, 2004
Perfection
I'm caught for a second by these words....And then I detect a pitfall: if perfection is dissatisfaction, where does happiness come in?
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September 28, 2003
Sign of the Cross
I never managed to quite shake the Catholic out of myself. Not that it is such a bad thing.
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August 05, 2003
Pickings 2
Others pick at their arms, their toes, their face. I pick at a pair of old blisters, my navel, and a spot hidden by my beard.
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September 21, 2002
The Secret
"You don't seem nervous and shy to me at all," Alan averred when I told him that people made me...
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September 19, 2002
Parings
Do you recall my mentioning that a rhino's horn is made of the same stuff as a fingernail? The thought occurs to me that I could save my parings, grind them up, and sell them to desperate Asian businessmen.
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September 16, 2002
Pickings
Something's eating me. The evidence is on my fingers, three of them in particular. The two index fingers and the...
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