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It's only afterwards that it becomes anything like a story at all. When you're telling it, to yourself or to someone else.
Sep 30, 2025
I hear the ruin of all space, shattered glass and toppled masonry, and time one livid final flame.
He who lives by the crystal ball will eat shattered glass.
I love 'Shattered Glass.' It's one of my favorite movies. I think it's just brilliant.
My life is like shattered glass." said the visitor. "My soul is tainted with evil. Is there any hope for me? "Yes," said the Master. "There is something whereby each broken thing is bound again and every stain made clean." "What?" "Forgiveness" "Whom do I forgive?" "Everyone: Life, God, your neighbor especially yourself." "How is that done?" "By understanding that no one is to blame," said the Master. "NO ONE.
When you are in the middle of a story it isn't a story at all, but only a confusion; a dark roaring, a blindness, a wreckage of shattered glass and splintered wood; like a house in a whirlwind, or else a boat crushed by the icebergs or swept over the rapids, and all aboard powerless to stop it. It's only afterwards that it becomes anything like a story at all. When you are telling it, to yourself or to someone else.
Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.
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