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61 " Your thoughts have given up, finally. "
― Alice Notley , Certain Magical Acts
62 " I am the being within you, outside time and unhaunted. "
63 " you steppedoutside time to find me. But you are the inventor of timeand you will go back. "
64 " I didn't mean to be born. "
65 " You return here at night when you dream. A partof your waking self remains "
66 " You were sick, so sick, with your wound of thwarted longing "
67 " I want to be with himin my thoughts; I want to live with him in my mind. "
68 " It is outside time that you heal.Walk with me outside time. "
69 " I am able to reachsomeone by thinking towards them, partly in words.I send forth my thoughts. "
70 " It'snow strange to live in this body. I don'tfeel at one with it at all. "
71 " we will never seeour own bodies, existing for the eyes of others. "
72 " though suffering rises up and shames me. "
73 " Have I comefrom another world to inhabit this body of mine? "
74 " in the telepathy of dreamsTALK TO ME "
75 " There are several kindsof time going on at the same time. "
76 " I'm afraid the way I think is an anthropological relic. "
77 " I don't want this part where I don't know if I've dreamed it or not. "
78 " I could have stayed out of this one; I didn't. "
79 " I only remember that it all hurt. "
80 " I am the beingthat deflects change, for change is boring and haunted,the same gestures in shifting colors. You knowall the colors. "