neither here nor there
“Kissing someone is actually sucking on a long tube the other end of which is full of excrement.
…her feelings controlled her rather than vice versa. As if her feelings were something outside her, not in her control, like a bus she has to wait for.
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‘What are you afraid of?’
‘I’m afraid of absolutely everything there is.'”
David Foster Wallace, “Here and There”
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