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[โ€“] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

There is an idea of a Patrick Bateman, some kind of abstraction, but there is no real me, only an entity, something illusory, and though I can hide my cold gaze and you can shake my hand and feel flesh gripping yours and maybe you can even sense our lifestyles are probably comparable: I simply am not there.

[โ€“] Deceptichum@quokk.au 2 points 9 months ago

The inflection on that line is burned into my skull.