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  <title>Echoes in a Hollow Space</title>
  <subtitle>I'm here because I'm here because I'm here</subtitle>
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    <name>pjthompson</name>
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  <updated>2021-10-21T19:46:13Z</updated>
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    <title>Escape</title>
    <published>2021-10-21T19:46:13Z</published>
    <updated>2021-10-21T19:46:13Z</updated>
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    <content type="html">&lt;span style="color: #000000;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Random quote of the day:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: #000000;"&gt;“Forget about what you are escaping &lt;em&gt;from. &lt;/em&gt;Reserve your anxiety for what you are escaping &lt;em&gt;to.”&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: #000000;"&gt;—Michael Chabon, &lt;em&gt;The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.pj-thompson.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/escape4WP@@@.jpeg"&gt;&lt;img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-7108" src="http://www.pj-thompson.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/escape4WP@@@.jpeg" alt="" width="386" height="470" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: #000000;"&gt;Disclaimer: The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Desus and Mero, Beyoncé, or the Marine Corps Marching Band. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=pjthompson&amp;ditemid=1989700" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/&gt; comments</content>
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    <id>tag:dreamwidth.org,2009-05-04:264091:1718889</id>
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    <title>Wounded</title>
    <published>2018-07-16T17:02:49Z</published>
    <updated>2018-07-16T17:02:49Z</updated>
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    <content type="html">&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Random quote of the day:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;“I bear the wounds of all the battles I avoided.”&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;—Fernando Pessoa, &lt;em&gt;The Book of Disquiet &lt;/em&gt;(tr. Richard Zenith)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.pj-thompson.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/avoidance4WP@@@.jpeg"&gt;&lt;img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-4920" src="http://www.pj-thompson.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/avoidance4WP@@@.jpeg" alt="" width="549" height="368" srcset="http://www.pj-thompson.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/avoidance4WP@@@.jpeg 549w, http://www.pj-thompson.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/avoidance4WP@@@-300x201.jpeg 300w" sizes="(max-width: 549px) 100vw, 549px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="color: #808080;"&gt;Disclaimer: The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Orville and Wilbur, Katy Perry, or the Avengers. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="text-align: right"&gt;&lt;small&gt;Mirrored from &lt;a href="http://www.pj-thompson.com/blog/?p=4919" title="Read Original Post"&gt;Better Than Dead&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/small&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=pjthompson&amp;ditemid=1718889" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/&gt; comments</content>
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    <id>tag:dreamwidth.org,2009-05-04:264091:1029180</id>
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    <title>Gimme whiskey</title>
    <published>2015-02-19T18:52:41Z</published>
    <updated>2020-01-24T22:27:01Z</updated>
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    <content type="html">&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Random quote of the day:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;“The act of writing puts you in confrontation with yourself, which is why I think writers assiduously avoid writing. The number of alcoholic writers makes a lot of sense because if you’re going to be face to face with yourself, maybe it’s better that you don’t recognize that person.&amp;#8221;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;—Fran Lebowitz, quoted in “AT LUNCH WITH: Fran Lebowitz; Words Are Easy, Books Are Not,” by Bob Morris, &lt;em&gt;New York Times, &lt;/em&gt;August 10, 1994&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;strong&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.pj-thompson.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/drunk4WP@@@.jpg"&gt;&lt;img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-2963" src="http://www.pj-thompson.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/drunk4WP@@@.jpg" alt="drunk4WP@@@" width="560" height="365" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Disclaimer: The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Siegfried and Roy, Leonard Maltin, or the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="text-align: right"&gt;&lt;small&gt;Mirrored from &lt;a href="http://www.pj-thompson.com/blog/?p=2962" title="Read Original Post"&gt;Better Than Dead&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/small&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=pjthompson&amp;ditemid=1029180" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/&gt; comments</content>
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