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Kyle
Prospective writer/ruler of world etc.
Current student
Existence precedes essence BUT
Literature precedes existence.
Ask me how
If they have not quite seceded from war’s state, at least they’ve found the beginnings of gentle withdrawal … there’s never been the space or time to talk about it, and perhaps no need—but both know, clearly, it’s better together, snuggled in, than back out in the paper, fires, khaki, steel of the Home Front. That, indeed, the Home Front is something of a fiction and lie, designed, not too subtly, to draw them apart, to subvert love in favor of work, required pain, bitter death. Thomas Pynchon (Gravity’s Rainbow)

(Source: wehaventlocatedusyet)