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“The Weirdos On our first date, he bought me a taco, talked at length about the ancients' theories of light, how it streams at all angles to align events in space and time, that it is the source of all information, determines every outcome, how we can reflect it to summon aliens using mirrored…” quote by Ottessa Moshfegh — Download Open image

““The Weirdos On our first date, he bought me a taco, talked at length about the ancients' theories of light, how it streams at all angles to align events in space and time, that it is the source of all information, determines every outcome, how we can reflect it to summon aliens using mirrored bowls of water.””

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“Knowledge of anything current or faddish made me feel I was just a victim of isolation.”

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“I wanted to hold onto the house the way you'd hold onto a love letter. It was proof that I had not always been completely alone in the world. But I think I was also holding on to the loss, to the emptiness of the house itself, as though to affirm that it was better to be alone than to…

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“I watched that old world go by, away and away, gone gone gone, until, like me, it disappeared.”

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