#but a fully realized complicated wonderful annoying hero fuckup full of courage and stupidity
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"...but people's lives don't get preserved like fossils. The best you can hope for is that time will have hardened around someone's memory, preserving a void in their shape"
--Maggie Shipstead, Great Circle
#fuck!! why didn't i write this line? Fuck!#this gets to the heart of what I'm always thinking about#how do you make someone real#to someone who never had a chance to know them?#how do you fight the memory of a legend#when you want the person preserved#who is not an icon or idea#but a fully realized complicated wonderful annoying hero fuckup full of courage and stupidity#or what have you#how do you try and reconstruct a person#and remember how long no one imagined dinosaurs had feathers#your person featherless and ferocious and not the person you loved#remembered but only as an IDEA
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