Sometimes your best way to deal with shit is not to hold yourself as such a precious little prize. - Chuck Palahniuk

The earth, he'd say, is just a big machine. A big processing plant. A factory. That's your big answer. The big truth. Think of a rock polisher, one of those drums, goes round and round, rolls twenty-four/seven, full of water and rocks and gravel. Grinding it all up. Round and round. Polishing those ugly rocks into gemstones. That's the earth. Why it goes round. We're the rocks. And what happens to us--the drama and pain and joy and war and sickness and victory and abuse--why, that's just the water and sand to erode us. Grind us down. To polish us up, nice and bright.

"When you think about it from a native plant perspective," Oyster says."Johnny Apple seed was a fucking biological terrorist."

I feel my heart ache, but I've forgotten what that feeling means.