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There she was, stable and as if forever; then-nothing. Vanished like fire or air, an element of the earth back into the earth. To mix with the everyone-else people that never cease to be. Poured out among them. The evaporated girl, he thought. Of transformation. That comes and goes as she will. And no one, nothing, can hold on to her.
I seek to net the wind, he thought. He was in love with a phantom of authority, a kind of hologram, through which a normal man could walk, and emerge on the far side, alone. Without ever having gotten a good grip on it- on the girl itself.
You ask yourself, where is she now? And the answer is- Nowhere. Because she was not there in the first place. The tragedy in his life already existed. To love an atmospheric spirit. That was the real sorrow. Hopelessness itself. Nowhere on the printed page, nowhere in the annals of man, would her name appear: no local habitation, no name. There are girls like that, he thought, and those you love the most, the ones where there is no hope because it has eluded you at the very moment you close your hands around it.-Excerpt "Scanner Darkly" Philip K Dick

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There she was, stable and as if forever; then-nothing. Vanished like fire or air, an element of the earth back into the earth. To mix with the everyone-else people that never cease to be. Poured out among them. The evaporated girl, he thought. Of transformation. That comes and goes as she will. And no one, nothing, can hold on to her.
I seek to net the wind, he thought. He was in love with a phantom of authority, a kind of hologram, through which a normal man could walk, and emerge on the far side, alone. Without ever having gotten a good grip on it- on the girl itself.
You ask yourself, where is she now? And the answer is- Nowhere. Because she was not there in the first place. The tragedy in his life already existed. To love an atmospheric spirit. That was the real sorrow. Hopelessness itself. Nowhere on the printed page, nowhere in the annals of man, would her name appear: no local habitation, no name. There are girls like that, he thought, and those you love the most, the ones where there is no hope because it has eluded you at the very moment you close your hands around it.-Excerpt "Scanner Darkly" Philip K Dick