the questionable establishment

2001.02.15

"Twits have feelings too," she whispered aloud to herself, and winced at the cruelty of the thought. Perhaps she was simply that: a cruel person who reveled in others' pain. Perhaps even in her own pain. In the melodrama that always proceeded from pain and exhaustion and beautiful tears. After all, hurt in its own sense was victorious. It was a proof that one was alive.