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Some answers to some questions
...because it's necessary to force a coherence on the scene that it didn't necessarily have.
...because there was no philosophical core to it.
...because of the relationship between memory and the unfolding of time.
...because of the connection between the order of things and the strange intersection of events in the world.
...because of what happens if you try and make the most of each day in life.
...because some things are remembered with clarity and some things are not.
...because we are all egotists who allow our feelings to dominate our lives.
...because we pay more attention to some things than to others.
...because the threat of violence is very close to us all.
...because life ia a means of extracting fiction.
...because mundane incidents can often be elevated to fable.
...because history is man made.
...because each life makes its myths.
...because myths have a force that can never be entirely tamed by ironic aesthetic contemplation.
...because of the relatinship between the world of imagination and the real world.
...because if no-one tells the story there is no story.
...because music is not just what you hear or what you listen to but everything that happens.
...because we can't see other people's thoughts.
...because we like to know a lot that we aren't told.
...because freedom which on this earth can only be bought with a thousand of the hardest sacrifices must be enjoyed unrestrictedly in its fullness without any kind of programmatic calculation as long as it lasts.
...because timedamages the memory and memory burns into time.
...because people looked back at the way things happened as if they had happened exactly as remembered.
...because fact is a fact.
...because of an inscrutable combination of audacity and innocence.
...because if life is not worth living songs are not worth singing.
...because blankness and minimalism are balms poured upon our overused optical nerves and overcrowded brain cells.
...because someone on the bus whispered in Ian's ear that the world does not exist and he couldn't help but agree.
...because the world carries weight and always weights the same.
...because we all live in dream worlds.
...because his imagination was out of place.
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