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>>6799104

Advice from Old Men

He said to work in the meat-packing plants you only needed two things: a strong back, and a weak mind.
He said he was the first responder to a Marine, who before approaching the range with an M16A2 (fully-automatic) and his rationed fifteen-round clip, decided to put the barrel beneath his chin and pull the trigger. His finger got stuck down and he killed two people sitting next to him.
He said if he got in a real pickle, all of the sudden-like, he’d crawl in the angled polygon space between the three-ton motor and the twelve-ton pump. That’s where he’d be.
He said the kid drove across the divided highway without looking.
He said the guy who came to check if he was okay asked if he had a blanket or tarp.
He said it’s so preventable; just get checked, because it takes ten years to metastasize.
He said all those things, but I just heard the universe whispering,
“Velocitas Eradico,
‘I, who am speed, eradicate.’

>>6773677
That I can remember in that last 12 months:
Slaughter-House Five
The Old Man and The Sea
The Problem from Hell
Levittown
Waiting for Godot
Mortality by Hitchens
Catcher in the Rye
Mostly done w/ Tenth of December by George Saunders
4/7 through Gravity's Rainbow
Listened to 20-40 short stories from New Yorker fiction podcast