Findings:
- Over time, the metaphor becomes literal. Eventually, we will wish for the figurative meaning, but left with only the chilling reality.
- Let there be another next time
- For every rich man who tries to leave this world for a better one with his fancy tomb surrounded by mourners, there are many more who perish alone in the cold, forgotten by all but God.
- quiet is existence become crystalline, perfectly clear, but deceptively pregnate with reality
- Music that is either by the Sonic Youth or by some band that is ripping off the Sonic Youth, but you can't tell which
- I learned never to empty the well of my writing, but always to stop when there was still something there in the deep part of the well, and let it refill at night from the springs that fed it.
- beliefs can change the world, but they can't change reality
- tied to electronic reality by the glittering threads of stolen bandwidth
- there is a great war between abstraction and the concrete reality
- There's a sign on the wall. But she wants to be sure. Cause you know sometimes words have two meanings.
- I won't tell you the real reason why I hate you, but I'll tell you another which is just as good
- the things which pierce our abstractions point at true reality
- Reality can't be whatever I want it to be, but maybe it's not so clear-cut, you know?
- don't work from ideas toward reality, but from reality toward ideas
- Because everything is teetering nobody notices. But whenever something falls everybody knows.
- same same, but different
- I'll pretend I just cursed myself by saying this, so when it doesn't happen I have something to fall back on other than you
- To leave you there by yourself chained to fate
- Something everyone has done but nobody knows what to call it
- The serpent was in the garden again, but there weren't any apples left in the tree, so I figured things were cool.
- Every Which Way but Loose
- next to of course god america i
- Suicide is punishable by resurrection. There will be no exceptions.
- Noises made by cows in different languages
- There are causes worth dying for, but none worth killing for
- They know me not by name, but numbers
- we are starving because we are afraid of our own hearts, and there must be another way
- Tell me a story about a burro, standing atop a mesa, surrounded by a flock of geese, being fed by a weathered old man wearing nothing but a Jimmy hat
- there are people who are gone but wanted me to be happy
- Of course they want to come here. Who doesn't? Besides the people from Los Angeles, but we don't speak of them.
- You don't see the light at the end of the tunnel now, but it's there. I'm holding it for you.
- There are many things that I would like to say to you but I don't know how
- Sitting next to strangers who fall asleep by me for no reason. Trusting rhythm. An odd intimacy, train trips.
- There By the Grace of God
- Amakuni once drew an old sword of his from a box, suddenly overjoyed by something he had cast aside.
- Jesus did not say this; it represents the perspective of a later or different tradition
- World created in your mind
- my mind has long been gnawed by the cankering tooth of mystery
- Fossils were put there by God
- There's someone in my head but it's not me
- I wrote you a letter on the bus back from the city, but that's a different kind of weary
- Butt's Twelve by Pies
- but mr can you maybe listen there's
- but you should be right here, right next to me
- Susan Goldman, who has cervical cancer, is partly thankful as she braces herself but changes her mind as she's sprayed with burning jet fuel.
- Sensei's recipes
- Once upon a time there was light in my life, but now there's only love in the dark
- the world's big enough, but how about your mind?
- it's like something big is happening right in front of us but we can't see it
- I always imagine those surrounded by time, but I walk on top of it.
- She's smarter than me but she's also more quiet, therefore she has no personality which makes me feel better
- There are many like it, but this one is mine
- but are there horses?
- Rules by which a great empire may be reduced to a small one
- Incarnation, a poem (or something) by polyseeme
- Your job is to find kitten. This task is complicated by the existence of various things which are not kitten.
- The Scots Confession: Chapter 18
- Noises made by pigs in different languages
- "Clockwork" (noun) - The mechanisms by which a clock functions.
- And if terrorists wanted to communicate secretly, mightn't they just do so by collaborating on a 'draft' here at e2? Can the NSA check on our drafts? Who knows? Inquiring minds want to know, Jay!
- There is a place between floating aimlessly with your head in the clouds and just scraping by in the mud-realm of men and commerce.
- Different horses for different courses
- The women are different over there
- There is a different time scale
- There is a house by the sea
- Noises made by cats in different languages
- but it's been promised to another
- There but for the grace of God go I
- It all turned out all right but there was so much pain along the way
- Not really by the rules, but...
- there isn't another side. it's all right here.
- Apple may have bought NeXT, but NeXT took over Apple
- So says the preacher man, but... I don't go by what he says
- Think of something you always wanted to do, but are afraid of. Do it today.
- Think there's too much violence in society today? Maybe, but consider this:
- A solution to spam (which doesn't work, but nice try)
- I am in love with so much more than your body heat, but let's start there
- He stretched out his arms but she was not there
- I am an adventurer not by choice, but by fate
- I don't have a soul. But something still hurts.
- but the fruitsellers are there every day
- A woman has 30 ways of laughing, but only 1 way in which she cries.
- They fed off each other, which is unusual in a couple, but nice to see.
- you can give up, but there will always be those who do not
- There Is No Such Thing As Light/There Is No Such Thing As Darkness/This Shadow Is An Illusion/But Illusions Are Still Real/And I Still Must Step Out Of It
- every horse can be tamed by someone. but they don't always live at the same time.
- I don't know why but I always love episodes without words. like just something about them makes me feel calm or something..
- There were a few moments you will not hear about, but they happened
- With you there is nothing involved but everything
- There are women and tender children where those shells fall, but war is war.
- There is no god but God
- there are no rules, but there is a lot to learn
- Something to remember me by
- Food which was intended as such by nature
- Notes on ruining the beauty of barren places by being there
- There is no weirdness like the weirdness of a novel written by a mathematician
- In the end, he could quiet his mind only by dying
- There, in that wordless world surrounded by thick ice, I eventually lost all my strength. Bit by bit, bit by bit.
- There was a Man Dwelt by a Churchyard
- I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by bad poetry
- Vaccines created by transplanting genes
- He makes me feel alone just by being there
- There is no Goddess but Goddess and She is Your Goddess
- On feeling haunted by words which were never said
- The inviolable censor created by the gaze of offline acquaintances
- Woken up by footsteps of people who weren't there
- Thank you Mario! But our princess is in another castle!
- unless, of course, we assume the narrator is delusional or lying, which is far less interesting. Or, alternatively, if we assume magic is real
- Haunted by the specters of something that hasn't happened
- And Now for Something Completely Different
- There exists no 1:1 mapping between words in different languages
- there aren't any stars because we haven't created them yet
- drum rudiments which sound like they were named by a neural net
- The woman had a carnivorous frenzy which could only be soothed by the succulent sirloin
- There is infinite hope, but not for us
- It is not instruction, but provocation, that I can receive from another soul.
- I know there are other fish in the sea but I don't want them
- There was a lot of blood, but the boys needed it
- But there are NUNS watching us!
- Why is there always money for war, but not for education?
- You find yourself being chased not only by the bad guys, but also by what should be the good guys
- My skull is but a padded cell, the walls of which my inner demons bounce off
- This Star Wars sheet may be worth something, but I just need a tablecloth
- Something Childish, but Very Natural
- chapters marked by love notes from another man's wife
- I don't think I realized what I had gotten myself into, but it seemed like the potential for fun and insanity were there in equal parts
- There will never be another you
- All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others
- They try to be quiet but you know they are there with their weird coppery breath.
- Boston sports fans and their teams: A brief but angsty perspective
- Due to the Incompetence of our novice author, our heroine, cahla, finds herself in the wilds of Djibouti; there is no denouement in sight, but the moonlight is pretty.
- Men may cry "Peace! Peace!" but there is no peace
- This one goes out to you - not so much the people in the audience, but more the people in my mind
- The light is red, but there is a green arrow
- There is poetry in my soul, but I keep it on a short leash
- judge a captain not by his shipwrecks, but by whether or not he blames the sea
- different but equal
- Loneliness is but a myth dispelled by you
- Yet is there hope, then Love but play thy part
- Death arrived shortly thereafter, but we were both far too busy to bother with one another just yet
- she doesn't write, doesn't tell you stories, but somehow it's her words that spring to mind at those crucial, terrifying moments, and for that you are eternally grateful
- There was silence in my heart, but you found a way to break it.
- This is just an ordinary well. You think there is more to it, but it is just an ordinary well
- There is no dream but this.
- I told her I could read her mind, but she didn't believe me. I could tell.
- In Which Ethel Gao Gets Off His Butt and Accepts the Call
- we will tear the world apart until it is nothing but fragments, and meaning will cease
- Some things are definite. We will all die, but there is rain.
- So then I tried staring into the abyss, but it got distracted by a weasel and ditched me
- and my heart sings of cupboards opening by rainbow seashore but
- Eyes are the windows to the soul, but there are some windows that should never be opened
- the ocean is never calm and still, but the depths are very different from the surface
- Now there's revolution but they don't know what they're fighting
- I know you're up there. I am but a discontented symbol birthed from the blood of your terrible pen.
- your chances of being killed by a frog are low BUT NEVER ZERO
- there are many voids but this one is mine
- in this world there are no equals but some day you will surpass me
- i can't fit it all in but by god, i will keep trying
- I'm not really okay with being hated for what I am. It's hard to take. But it's still better than being loved for something I'm not.
- I wanted to show you something, but the verb sucked
- Noises made by roosters in different languages
- only by consuming pieces of one another can beings such as we exist
- Noises made by dogs in different languages
- Noises made by birds in different languages
- Pounded In The Butt By My Book "Pounded In The Butt By My Own Butt"
- There is another theory...
- it'd break my heart but if i knew you got away it'd give me peace of mind till the day i die
- another mind
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