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Posts tagged ‘The Woman Upstairs’

12
Feb

“The Woman Upstairs”

I’ve finally come to understand that life itself is the Fun House. All you want is that door marked EXIT, the escape to a  place where Real Life will be; and you can never find it. No: let me correct that. In recent years, there was a door, there were doors, and I took them and I believed in them, and I believed for a stretch that I’d managed to get out into Reality – and God, the bliss and terror of that, the intensity of that:  it felt so different – until I suddenly realized I’d been stuck in the Fun House all along. I’d been tricked. The door marked EXIT hadn’t been an exit at all. Read more »