Do you sometimes look up from the computer and look around the room and know you are alone, I mean really know it, then feel scared ?
Tao LinNovelsโand memoirsโare perhaps the most comprehensive reports humans can deliver, of their private experiences, to other humans. In these terms there is only one kind of novel: a human attempt to transfer or convey some part or version of their world of noumenon to anotherโs world of noumenon.
Tao LinLately, they were always reassuring each other that nothing was wrong; and probably it was trueโlife wasnโt supposed to be incredible, after all. Life wasnโt some incredible movie. Life was all the movies, ever, happening at once. There were good ones, bad ones, some went straight to video.
Tao LinThough if love was an animal, Garret knew, it would probably be the Loch Ness Monster. If it didnโt exist, that didnโt matter. People made models of it, put it in the water, and took photos. The hoax of it was good enough. The idea of it. Though some people feared it, wished it would just go away, had their lives insured against being eaten alive by it.
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