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  1. He woke to the amazing sight of a door in his bedroom wall that had not been there before and made a terrible mistake: He opened it.
  2. He does not ingest his food orally. He makes large slits in his body with a razor blade and stuffs food into the slits and sews them up.
  3. She told him, rather unwisely, on the Golden Gate Bridge. It sure was a long way down. He almost grew tired of watching her fall.
  4. But I will smile at the disapprobation of the judge, smile as the noose is put on and smile, forever, through the swarming flames of Hell.
  5. The police arrive. Red and blue lights flash. They pound on the door. Still he lingers, staring sadly down at her beautiful, mutilated body.
  6. In an aerial photograph of an alluvial fan, he saw the forking veins of her wrist; in a constellation, her freckles. She was everywhere.
  7. You pack and I do not try to stop you; I consent under compulsion; having been forced, I am willing. Coactus volui. I love you. Goodbye.
  8. It wasn't indecision. He knew what he wanted: To divide himself in two and live two simultaneous lives, one with her and one without.
  9. His sadness was oceanic and like the ocean he could turn his back on it but still he felt it behind him, seething, unfathomable, inhuman.
  10. He felt almost nothing. Like the sphericity of the planet to one standing on its surface, what was happening was too vast to perceive.
  11. Now I am the wind that covers your face with hair; now the headlights of a car that catch your teeth. I am with you but you do not know it.
  12. But as he jumped a sunburst splayed through the trestlework of the bridge and patched the water with irregular polygons of light and shadow.
  13. He felt horrible, revolting, like a man-shaped mass of interlocked animals on the point of bursting disgustingly and multitudinously apart.
  14. The problem is he is not insane enough. His illness does not inspire compassion or even morbid curiosity. He is just a mediocre lunatic.
  15. The tumultuous ugly caw of a bird hits a nerve that brings to mind a thousand shapes of broken things I cannot connect or classify.
  16. Pullulating bodies, tyres, telephones and wringing hands, graveyards, highways, rubbish fires, hospitals and rubber bands.
  17. Weedgrown regions of memory which, like the exclusion zone fenced off after a nuclear disaster, are inimical to health and must be avoided.
  18. "You're gorgeous," Ian said, spilling his drink. But the girl left with another man and Ian returned to his mental index of suicide methods.
  19. During the flight, Ian slept and dreamed the plane went down. They landed. But it wasn't a dream. The customs officer welcomed him to hell.
  20. To those who quote as the sage words of Shakespeare the sophistries of Iago: A writer's characters do not reflect a writer's character.