Overheard

Blogging on Hold

For the next few days, until I launch the redesigned version of my blog, I won't be posting.

Please don't send in the police to look for my body trapped under a pile of pizza boxes.

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"Messenger's Equation: Funerals are small if you outlive the people who would have attended."

"Unable to turn inward, all fear turns outward, hence all the weird sects, massive door locks, religious fever, pinched, bitter, ugly faces in Florida, California, Arizona -- wherever the old ones gather for dying. Fear is resonant, he realized. It bounces around the condominium walls, growing stronger rather than fading. We reinforce each other's terrors. By guarding against assault, [we create] the fear of assault. By speaking always of conspiracies, [we create] more fear of conspiracies."