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BEAUTIFUL_LOST

                                        April 29, 2007

  "... I know what I am doing now, that I am doing
   something both beautiful but gruesome because I
   am destroying it's beauty by knowing that it might
   be beautiful, know that if I know I am doing something
   beautiful, that it's no longer beautiful.  I fear that
   even if it is beautiful in the abstract, that my
   doing it knowing that it's beautiful and worse, knowing
   that I will very soon be documenting it, that in my
   pocket is a tape recorder brought fot just that
   purpose -- that all this makes this act of potential
   beauty somehow gruesome.  I am a monster."

             Dave Eggers,
             "A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius"
             p.399-400

                         STAGGERING

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