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…a ball of blue light shoots into my forehead and bursts and I say reeling inside myself Ora pro nobis peccatoribus nunc et in hora
#Valis
#PhilipKDick
…a beam of pink light could strike us, blind us, and when we regained our sight we could know everything or nothing….

I move my thumb and finger up to the third bead and I say to myself Ave Maria Gratia plena Dominus tecum Benedicta tu in mulieribus et benedictus fructus ventris tui lesus Sancta Maria Mater Dei and I a ball of blue light shoots into my forehead and bursts
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we're getting close
It took its time, this trip, I say
The more times you take it, the shorter it feels, Åsleik says
It's like that with everything, probably, I say
The first time you walk some path, it feels the longest, Åsleik says
And it's like that in a boat too
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after lying with the shakes for a few days & seeing all the colours in the world I saw something white inside me & I held tight to it and then & there, in the middle of the shakes, in my delirium, my delirium tremens, I decided, while holding tight to that white colour #Fosse24

they used to say that every real village needed a shoemaker, a blacksmith, & a fiddler, Åsleik says, that's how it was, he says & I sit there & keep a straight course for the holm in the middle of the fjord & Åsleik says it's nice to have company, man is man's delight
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No you've got it better, just painting pictures, but you need talent for
that, it's like you need a gift of grace, Åsleik says
But gifts of grace come from God and I never believed in that, he says
and I don't say anything
No, never, Åsleik says
Believed in God, I mean
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…and I ask if there's any way I can get to see Asle, he's a good friend, and the woman sitting there says she is so sorry, he died last night, he passed away quietly and peacefully….

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Äsleik says again that the picture looks just like Sister down to the last detail,so if I really saw her just that one time then yes he doesn't understand how I could have painted it, that I was able to do that, because he's never showed me a photograph of Sister anyway
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Asleik says, suitcases and women are bad luck on boats...I hand the suitcase to Åsleik and he says that since I didn't know any better, or couldn't help it, we'll just have to hope for the best, better a little luck than a lot of brains
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I give thanks for my life and for letting me meet Asle and I give thanks for having met Guro and then I just say thank you and then I pray that the pictures I've painted might be a help to others, and I fall silent inside myself
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Guro went to church or was a Christian or anything,no, far from it, she probably wasn't a believer at all, but she had a lot of God in her, and now that part of her is back with God again, like she is,like what was deepest inside her is, it's impossible to understand it #Fosse24

I think that can't be Guro's apartment where there was a fire, can it? yes, it looks like it, and I stop and I stand there looking at the broken windows and the burnt-up wood panelling and I see how the grey and black burn marks are almost screaming at the white
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I'll take a taxi to St Paul's Church and it'll be fine if I get there early, then I can sit in the church and listen to the silence, because it's in the silence that God is nearest
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I think and I drive and I don't think about anything, that's maybe what I like best about driving, that the thoughts sort of go away and I get absorbed in just driving, that I fall into a kind of stupor and get a kind of break or rest or whatever it is
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I step into my shoes and I go outside and put them in the back of the car and I feel how good it is to be getting all the paintings out of the house, so now the only picture I still have is the portrait of Ales, which is still leaning against the back of the chair
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driven into Bjørgvin so I could go to mass on Christmas Day,the way I usually do,but there'll be none of that this year,since for some strange reason I said yes to celebrating Christmas with Åsleik & Sister,whose name is Guro & what's said is said,a promise is a promise
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I hold Ales's hand and I look at the empty chair where Ales liked to sit, because we sat like this a lot, just sat without saying anything, I think, and it's good holding Ales's hand, I think and I look at the waves and I see Asle standing there in front of the window
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…and if God withdraws back into himself then I and everything else will disappear…

#TheDivineInvasion
#PhilipKDick
"The universe exists because Yah remembers it....”
Elias said, “His name means 'He Brings into Existence Whatever Exists.'"

Ales said that she knew that icons were what she should paint, not paintings, she'd be an icon painter, not an art painter, she was just as sure of that as she was of the fact that he and she belonged together
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Ales said that she didn't know if he'd noticed, he often spent so much time in his own world, but she'd recently been reading lots of books about icons, both histories and books about how icons are made, and there was no one in Norway as far as she knew who painted icons #Fosse24

I might as well carry all the tubes of oil paint, yes, all the painting supplies into The Parlor, where Ales used to be with her painting things, and where the books are, but no, no I don't want to do that, because that room should stay the way it was when Ales left it #Fosse24

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….it's Ales who's the sky, he thinks, because Ales is the sky too above his dead Grandmother, Asle thinks and he feels deep inside that this is his country, his landscape, and it always will be….

so actually there are two kinds of time, the time that just passes and that really matters only so that daily life can move along its course and then the other time, the actual time, which is made up of events, and that time can last, can become lasting
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and then Ales and Asle go over to one painting again and then the
door opens and a woman with medium-length blonde hair comes in and it's like something comes over Ales and she tugs a little on Asle's hand
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and then Ales and Asle go over to one painting again and then the
door opens and a woman with medium-length blonde hair comes in and it's like something comes over Ales and she tugs a little on Asle's hand
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#Septology
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…it was God himself who died, because The Father and I are one, it says in scripture, yes, then it was the old God, the vengeful God as described in The Old Testament who died….

it feels good to think that I'm not going to paint anymore, that it's over, that I've done my part,
what I wanted to do was paint and I painted, year after year, and all those years I was actually painting away at the same picture, and the closer I got to my own picture #Fosse24

I've painted pictures to sell them & that's how I made the money I needed, I think, & I have everything I need, the house is mine, and I have a good car, a car I bought only around five years ago,so I'll have it as long as I live, or as long as I'm still allowed to drive #Fosse24