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Roll the Bones

Connecting the Dots of a Wide-open Universe
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What, what am I to do with all of this life?

Gwendolyn Brooks – Maud Martha

We can never know what to want, because, living only one life, we can neither compare it with our previous lives nor perfect it in our lives to come. [...] We live everything as it comes, without warning, like an actor going on cold. And what can life be worth if the first rehearsal for life is life itself? That is why life is always like a sketch. No, “sketch” is not quite the word, because a sketch is an outline of something, the groundwork for a picture, whereas the sketch that is our life is a sketch for nothing, an outline with no picture.

Milan Kundera – The Unbearable Lightness of Being

Wollah

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Galagog

a person alone in a snowy desolate landscape

Grayshift

a spiral staircase from above

Nodrophobia

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Hem-Jawed

an abstract image of someone touching their face

Aoyaoia

a person holding a guitar

Mogging Folly

a person sitting on a bench

Kadot

a person looking at an abstract spiral

Angosis

a table full of food

Beloiter

a person sitting at a slot machine

Starlorn

snow flakes in the dark

Ellipsism

a hand clawing at a wall

Knellish

a blurry image of a person lying on a bed

Suerza

a tunnel with a light emanating from the end

Eftless

a person with hands pressed on a window

Furosha

a storm raging in the sky over a building

Irrition

a close up of a dandelion

Arroia

people standing on a stage

Inerrata

a hand holding a broken cup

Fellchaser

a blurred shadow of a person in a dark room

Watashiato

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Skidding

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Dolonia

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Moledro

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Occhiolism

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Idlewild

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Ameneurosis

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