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“Papa outai”

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It's a miracle how affection seeps into the heart. That bloody piece of meat, all suddenly sensitized from mere function into feeling. No longer a thermodynamic machinery, but an instrument throbbing, wildly or softly, to a music of exquisite quality.

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@RahmaOJimoh You're living a colorful life.

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17 hours out of 8760 hours (if you survive 2026) and you are still not a millionaire despite your resolution to lock in aggressively.

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i am a museum of the all the kindness i've ever received.

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The only WhatsApp group chats still alive are school group chats and they die too after school.

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Mo is obviously not a stranger to a December controversy. Light work.

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If you're a writer (especially if you are the type to wear it like a toga), you must be prepared to have your personality defined by it. Every behaviour you exhibit, every action you take, every word you say or don't say will be viewed as a consequence of your ability to write.

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Argentina couldn't get their besties, Nigeria, at the FIFA World Cup. So they said, “Mm, let's go for the other -Geria”

Algeria.

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@thenoblejames I don't feel less than enough lol.

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I know so well but forget so often that the second draft is where the real writing gets done.

I labor through the first draft. I labor through the doubt, through the urge to just delete everything, but when I get to the second draft, it starts to make sense.

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dangerous cos it deludes me into thinking the curtains can't close unless the character has played his part to the point of resolution. & hopeful cos of the very same reason: that regardless of plot twists, the curtains can't close until the character reaches the end of the story

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i romanticize my life. i romanticize my suffering. I magnify my joy when i can. i symbolize. i often find myself thinking i'm the main character in a plot designed just for me. i like to think the plot has an arc: a premise which has already been established, a phase of conflict—

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—which i'm currently living, and a resolution lurking ahead — a resolution that ties everything back to the beginning.

but i sometimes worry that i'm only a subplot, a character written in 3rd-person in another person's story. i think it's dangerous & hopeful at the same time.

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@WordpotterSull1 Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers; Mary Roach

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Death doesn't have to be boring?