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Kallie 2022-12-01 05:21:38

And this feeling of freedom creates a sense of dread, a dizzy feeling. Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.

-I couldn't remember the reason for living. And when I did, it wasn't convincing.
-That sounds scary.
- It's very scary when you run out of distractions.
-Well, what if it wasn't a distraction? What if you just decided to commit yourself to one person?
-If I met someone now, I'm too far gone to appreciate her .

I enjoyed the whole conversation. It was like sitting at a tense poker table, holding a full house, and chatting innocently…Confident I had the winning hand, but getting a thrill out of the chance I could be beaten with a straight flush or four of a kind.

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  • Abe Lucas: Jill had been right in her appraisal of me. I was teetering on the brink of some kind of breakdown, unable to deal with my feelings of anger, frustration, futility. They say that drowning is a painless way to go.

  • Abe: Everything about killing Judge Spangler turned me on. The idea of helping this woman, of taking action, of ridding the world of the kind of vermin that makes the world an extra hell for all of us. I was intrigued by the creative challenge of bringing off a perfect murder. It was a high-stakes risk, but the risk made me feel alive.