The History of Writing Part One (I.)
As it happened, the dorms of Purgatory were no longer even divided into personal faiths, nor the manner in which one perished, nor even in reference to the year of one's original birth. It was, in fact, a kind of ad-hoc filing-system. Primitive in its austerity yet something akin to perfect grace in its convenience. It would be a mistake to call it serene although the darkness is purely without hostility or greed and in that passive reassurance any heart warmed by its own modesty might find some lasting refuge. Sisyphus stepped forward in the que. He noted, as he always did, the absence of things. Since there was little (if any) sense in paying attention to what was going on, no one really had any in tention toward it, so there could be no endocrinal or biological response to stress or worry or temptation. The others in the que ( you couldn't determine sex or age or ethnicity by their appearance and inquiring would be damning as idle chatter to a Buddhist and was therefore f...
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