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WHAT_AM_I_GIVING_YOU

                                        April 29, 2007


     "What am I giving you? I am giving you
     nothing.  I am giving you things that God
     knows, everyone knows.  ...  It seems like
     you know something, but you still know
     nothing.  I tell you and it evaporates.  I
     don't care-- how could I care?  I tell you
     how many people I have slept with ... and
     what have I really given you? ...  We will
     die and we will have protected... what?
     Protected from all the world that, what,
     we do this or that, that our arms have
     made these movements and our mouths these
     sounds? Please."

             Dave Eggers,
             "A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius"
             p. 214



           Would it be picking nits to say
           "so why are you bothering us
           with this?"  But he doesn't
           really mean he's "giving us
           nothing", what he means is               MASKS
           there's no value in concealment.


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