and I was thinking about way back in the very beginning in the Literal Heart of Jesus when Gus told us that he feared oblivion,
and I told him that he was fearing something universal and inevitable,
and how really, the problem is not suffering itself or oblivion itself
but the depraved meaninglessness of these things, the absolutely inhuman nihilism of suffering.
I thought of my dad telling me that the universe wants to be noticed.
But what we want is to be noticed by the universe, to have the universe give a shit what happens to us—
not the collective idea of sentient life but each of us, as individuals.
“Gus really loved you, you know,” he said. “I know.” “He wouldn’t shut up about it.”
“I know,” I said. “It was annoying.” “I didn’t find it that annoying,” I said.
“Did he ever give you that thing he was writing?” “What thing?” “That sequel or whatever to that book you liked.”
I turned to Isaac. “What?”He said he was working on something for you but he wasn’t that good of a writer.
“When did he say this?”I don’t know. Like, after he got back from Amsterdam at some point.
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