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Rated: 18+ · Book · Writing · #1300042
All that remains: here in my afterlife as a 'mainstream' blogger, with what little I know.
#920834 added September 24, 2017 at 8:51pm
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Left Unsaid
"But there is wisdom in being circumspect about such things, to reflect before telling what can never be unsaid, or sharing some supposed “honesty” that may wound beyond healing. Better to swallow even that which scalds than to unleash, for whatever reason, an unknowable damage that might have been spared."

https://www.imagejournal.org/2017/09/21/secret-mercies/

Perhaps, what drives us as writers is not knowing, not understanding what is going on. We try to fill in the gaps, try to make sense with our unknowing, by writing. Maybe, the origins of fiction was from being denied the truth.

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