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comparative literature 1:34pm 9/25/2002  

I only know one thing: everybody in the world is an angel, Charley Chaplin and I have seen their wings, you dont have to be a seraphic little girl with a wistful smile of sadness to be an angel, you can be broadstriped Bigparty Butch sneering in a cave, in a sewer, you can be monstrous itchy Wallace Beery in a dirty undershirt, you can be an Indian woman squatting in the gutter crazy, you can even be a bright beaming believing American Executive with bright eyes, you can even be a nasty intellectual in the capitals of Europe but I see the big sad invisible wings on all the shoulders and I feel bad they're invisible and of no earthly use and never were and all we're doing is fighting to our deaths-

Why?

When you think on it, we're all souls in isolation - alive in here, I'm alive in here. Come here, a word in your ear: you can't go back to the trees. We're always searching for something, searching. Dear dear dead days, I'm longing for you.

Jack Kerouac, Desolation Angels

Mark Burgess, "Soul In Isolation"

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