This Book of Lies
By SlowRunning
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  • Poetry
  • poetry

Description

Over the course of many years on Wattpad, I've written short texts and poems, mostly unfinished, which I dared not to review after publishing, for they act as an emotional diary of dispersed thoughts and images imprinted by the many situations of life. Why call them "Lies", though? I guess being a skeptic at heart, this is how I see the many attempts that literature brings to explain existencial questions such as life and death, beauty and vice, passion and contemplation... but I take a certain pleasure in being fooled by these lies: there lies the origin of the dreams I childishly believe in order to stay earnest to my essence. I hope you'll notice that pleasure slipping through this gloomy, visceral stream of thoughts.

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This Book...
by SlowRunning
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13
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