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I pointed at the little kids goading each other to jump from rib cage to shoulder and Gus answered just loud enough for me to hear over the din, 'Last time, I imagined myself as the kid. This time, the skeleton.
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skeleton
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John Green |
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" Chattering finch and water-fly Are not merrier than I; Here among the flowers I lie Laughing everlastingly. No: I may not tell the best; Surely, friends, I might have guessed
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laughter
hope
skeleton
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G.K. Chesterton |
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I clearly saw the skeleton underneath all this show of personality what is left of a man and all his pride but bones?
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skeleton
pride
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Jack Kerouac |
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I sometimes think about old tombs and weeds That interwreathe among the bones of kings With cold and poisonous berry and black flower: Or ruminate upon the skulls of steeds Frailer than shells and on those luminous wings - The shoulder blades of Princes of fled power, Which now the unrecorded sandstorms grind Into so wraith-like a translucency Of tissue-thin and aqueous bone -
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skeleton
transience
melancholy
remembrance
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Mervyn Peake |