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  1. Steve Erickson _ The Sea Came in at Midnight

    Let's say I dared to suspend myself in the moment between breaths.
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  2. Steve Erickson _ The Sea Came in at Midnight

    Everyone, she says, is his own age of meaning.
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  3. Steve Erickson _ The Sea Came in at Midnight

    You're in the lights and he thinks you're exposed, he's in the dark and he thinks he's hidden. But he's not hidden, he's dead, and you're not exposed, you're alive.
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  4. Steve Erickson _ The Sea Came in at Midnight

    Lets say from the first moment of my life, everything's always been about me and nothing else, including apocalypse and chaos; let's say even apocalypse and chaos have been conceits of my psyche and bad faith--this assumes I ever kept any kind of faith at all, bad or otherwise...Let's say I'm faithlessness made flesh, the modern age's leap of faith stopped dead in its tracks, fucking around with apocalypse and chaos only because in some broken part of me, among any wreckage of honor or altruism or commitment of compassion, or the bits and pieces of moral vanity, I really believed the abyss was always just the playground of my imagination, and I was its bully.
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  5. Steve Erickson _ The Sea Came in at Midnight

    Since I've never had a dream,' she begins, 'one night I woke and went looking for one.
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  6. Steve Erickson _ The Sea Came in at Midnight

    If I had it to do all over again . . . I wouldn't change a thing.'. . . the final expression of narcissism, the last gesture of self-congratulation.
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