But don’t you just adore his prose?
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Is this the end of the end?
It is the end of your debauched cycle.
Will Yourself reappear in whichever cycle succeeds this?
Depends on technology.
Your Techno-Reich means to live forever.
Or at least for a thousand years.
If that’s how it plays out, I will consort with virgins.
Noir
Layin’ in my blood waitin’ on the medics.
What’s takin’ so long?
Don’t make no dif to me, Jack.
Jus’ me and them lights.
Death, right?
How you say it? Beckoning?
I like that.
Don’t feel no pain.
Maybe I’m already dead.
Jus’ my heart, man.
It still ain’t quit.
Sources
Bangkok Post
BBC
CLG
Al Jazeera
Le Monde
La Prensa
El País
Japan Times
The Free Library
Yahoo & Google
The NY Daily News
The Half Moon Bay Review
The Huffington Post
The Independent UK
The Guardian UK
Mr. S Leather
AlterNet
The Village Voice
The Progressive
Erowid Psychoactive Vaults
Multiple miscellaneous sources on- & off-line
My epigraph is a treated version of a Peter Ustinov quote.
About the Author
HAROLD JAFFE is the author of 22 volumes of fiction, novels, docufiction, and essays, most recently Anti-Twitter: 150 50-Word Stories, OD, Paris 60, Revolutionary Brain, Othello Blues, and Induced Coma: 50 & 100 Word Stories. His books have been translated in France, Spain, Italy, Germany, Japan, Cuba, Turkey, Romania and elsewhere. Jaffe is editor-in-chief of Fiction International.