"Then We Came to the End" [.]

[fiefoe]

<Lynn>:

• The only show of irritation she allowed herself was to pull her chair closer to her desk and to place two fingers at her left temple.
• "Dont worry so much?" We asked each other. "Why not at all?"
• His parents divorced when he was young and he never forgave the institution for any of its false comforts.
• Typically she picked up the phone and listened to them thirty seconds after he had left them, and carried on a dialogue with his recorded voice.
• All broken hearts are circumstantial.  / the default, the American dream
• Because Lynn's life was so much about marketing, the only way she could come to terms with her diagnosis was to see it presented to her in an ad.
• "So somebody had to stay home one day," she said, "and wait for the cable guy to come?"

__ Our charge in every communication was to inspire the potential buyer with the heroic possibilities of man-using-ink-cartridge.
__ "Well, if all that's true," said the old man, "that would make you creative creatives creating creative creative."

• the long indefatigable nightmare of not knowing what to do with the burden of a materialized love that refused their private requests to wane, to break, to please just go away
• the woefully bereft shelves recalled to mind TV programs that documented seasons of drought and low crop production in the history of a foregone people.
• Born in to sin, forgetful and unreformed, we dissembled once more.
• a familiar, expectorant hatred / the long double-barrel of Saturday and Sunday
• ... finally sitting down, reaching out to touch the edge of his desk as if it were a surrogate for his hand.
• That's not condescension so much as an attempt at a charitable truth.
• a perfectly ordinary and thus utterly baffling death
• Maybe that was the dream of a different nation, in some future world order, and we were stuck in the dark ages of luxury and comfort.
• who wore their clothes all wrong and foisted upon us their insufferable features, who deserved from a just god nothing but scorn because they were insipid, unpoetic, mercilessly enduring, and lost to the grand gesture
• "He called this country the best republic that ever began to fade."

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