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EVERY ANGEL IS TERRIFYING

EVERY ANGEL IS TERRIFYING

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Why Us?

Why Us?

November 3, 2018 Jerry King Comments 0 Comment

Why you?
Why us for that matter?
Why anything?
Because this moment simply is.
Have you ever seen bugs trapped in amber?
Well here we are trapped in the amber of this moment.

There is no why.

–Excerpt Slaughterhouse 5 p 97
by Kurt Vonnegut

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