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" I don't think that being dead is the end of the world,

 

because the world keeps going even if you're dead.

 

So it's simple mathematics really. "

 

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" If I was dead and thinking back, I'd wish that I had danced more.

 

That would be my only main change.

 

That and everything else. "

 

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" I'm not really dead but I'm not really alive either.

 

I'm in a very uncomfortable position.

 

I don't really like it "

 

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[steven narrating]

 

Eventually I decided to share with Becky

all the knowledge that I had learned about life.

 

 

[steven speaking to Becky:]

 

" I don't know anything about anything, really "

 

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[steven's character standing before firing squad about to be executed]

 

" Why are we here? Smart enough to ask and too stupid to answer.

 

My God! I wasted my whole life thinking about this stuff!

 

I should have just gone fishing! I should have just had a sandwich or

had a few laughs! Now I get it! "

 

[GUNSHOT]

 

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[Final Scene - Steven's character staring at his own tombstone]

 

" I'm gonna miss being alive. "

 

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- Steven Wright (from 'One Soldier')

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, " David " <david.bozzi

wrote:

>

> " I don't think that being dead is the end of the world,

>

> because the world keeps going even if you're dead.

>

> So it's simple mathematics really. "

>

> ----------------------

>

> " If I was dead and thinking back, I'd wish that I had danced more.

>

> That would be my only main change.

>

> That and everything else. "

>

> ----------------------

>

> " I'm not really dead but I'm not really alive either.

>

> I'm in a very uncomfortable position.

>

> I don't really like it "

>

> ----------------------

>

> [steven narrating]

>

> Eventually I decided to share with Becky

> all the knowledge that I had learned about life.

>

>

> [steven speaking to Becky:]

>

> " I don't know anything about anything, really "

>

> ---------------------

>

> [steven's character standing before firing squad about to be

executed]

>

> " Why are we here? Smart enough to ask and too stupid to answer.

>

> My God! I wasted my whole life thinking about this stuff!

>

> I should have just gone fishing! I should have just had a sandwich

or

> had a few laughs! Now I get it! "

>

> [GUNSHOT]

>

> ---------------------

>

> [Final Scene - Steven's character staring at his own tombstone]

>

> " I'm gonna miss being alive. "

>

> ---------------------

>

>

> - Steven Wright (from 'One Soldier')

>

 

 

 

I'd add one thing to that: do I know for sure the world will keep

going in the same manner before my arrival?

 

Is it exclusively 'my dream'?

 

Will my departure be assimilated as was my arrival...?

 

 

part 6 of a poem called Kali:

 

From where does all this come from?

The wind,

the sea,

me?

 

Just how do I awaken in my morning breath

in my earthly body,

to the lusty songs of small birds

to the well-known song of me?

 

Did I bring all this with me in the dream of me?

Will it all go away one day?

Will it disappear like words a finger writes upon water?

Like a cloud?

 

And if I should meet you this day,

forgive me if I see the sunlight in your eyes

if I touch the moonlight in your hair,

kiss the starlight falling from your love-filled mouth,

 

where we swim together, if only this one glorious moment.

 

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we come from the great unknown and we shall return to ?

 

Light,

Anna

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, " anabebe57 " <kailashana

wrote:

 

> we come from the great unknown and we shall return to ?

>

> Light,

> Anna

 

 

We come from nowhere; we go to nowhere. We are.

 

Then there was the guy who took viagra along with a laxative. He

didn't know if he was coming or going.

 

Richard

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