A split in the chest and it became somehow, you know...
Not quite comfortable, it's hard to breathe.
Somewhere there, under the ribs, you are gone
And this made my heart clench even more.
— How did you get here? People can't come here.
— It's for people," Shirley came closer, licking his lower lip. — I have a deal for you. I heard that you want to stay with Astra, but I'm sure he doesn't need a dead man.
— What do you mean?
Because you make so little impression, you see. You get born and you try this and you don't know why only you keep on trying it and you are born at the same time with a lot of other people, all mixed up with them, like trying to, having to, move your arms and legs with strings only the same strings are hitched to all the other arms and legs and the others all trying and they don't know why either except that the strings are all in one another’s way like five or six people all trying to make a rug on the same loom only each one wants to weave his own pattern into the rug; and it can't matter, you know that, or the Ones that set up the loom would have arranged things a little better, and yet it must matter because you keep on trying or having to keep on trying and then all of a sudden it’s all over and all you have left is a block of stone with scratches on it provided there was someone to remember to have the marble scratched and set up or had time to, and it rains on it and the sun shines on it and after a while they don't even remember the name and what the scratches were trying to tell, and it doesn’t matter.
And no matter how you look at it from every angle.
Loving me is like banging my head
Loving you is like chewing tar.
— Can I come in?
— He's not here.
— What?
— Tyler isn't here. Tyler went away. Tyler's gone.
This is not heaven. It's the world. And there's troubles in it.
Vigilante Victimhood is when victims and self-styled victims break the law, ignore norms, and bypass institutions in order to grandiosely self-idealize, exact revenge, and secure entitlement to rights and benefits. Traditional victims accept victimhood as the way of the world. Identity victims compete with other victims for entitlements, status, and benefits.