2008 :: Issue 3/Fall :: Philosophical Notebooks

Tephra 1

Clint Frakes

The most telling artifact is usually in the garbage.

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I give up on giving up.

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When you’re lost you take everything as a sign.

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Destiny: a drunk ambushing a flock of birds.

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Usually one must first be sick before one is brave.

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Note to everybody: I’m leaving soon and so are you.

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There is no amount of sleep or work that can turn ash back into wood.

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When the stars come out I’m no longer alone.

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Astrophysics: there is a rip in the center of space, and all this springing forth.

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Only when I was completely drenched did I bother to smell the rain.