The other people at the party are a little closer to what I mean than the guy. It was the people I trusted to be normal, only to discover normal is a series of traditional acts, not a body of shared principles or real knowledge that people have. Which fact makes the knowledge they so often pretend to have even more obscene and destructive. With him, there was something wrong; with them, the lack of what I need to be right in people. That absence is more frightening to me than recognizable outcroppings of asshole.
Smoke is a better metaphor than water. So many people smoke away. Poor girl.
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Date: 2009-03-31 09:07 pm (UTC)The other people at the party are a little closer to what I mean than the guy. It was the people I trusted to be normal, only to discover normal is a series of traditional acts, not a body of shared principles or real knowledge that people have. Which fact makes the knowledge they so often pretend to have even more obscene and destructive. With him, there was something wrong; with them, the lack of what I need to be right in people. That absence is more frightening to me than recognizable outcroppings of asshole.
Smoke is a better metaphor than water. So many people smoke away. Poor girl.