Crazy people drool on themselves and wander around in a daze. Lex does laps of circles in his little cell and wipes his mouth on his jacket. He’s smart. He’s not stupid enough to be insane.
He knows everything.
He can conjugate verbs in Latin and recite six different alphabets backwards. He speaks French, Japanese, German and Italian fluently, and can recite the periodic table in reverse. He’s brilliant. He won the Metropolis Science Fair when he was eight. He was in MENSA at 16 and didn’t care.
I--I just really loved this.
They wrapped him up and didn’t even give him a proper burial.
When he comes back he’s going to be very angry indeed.
He’s very angry already, and it takes him forever to get to his feet when he can’t use his hands.
This sentence just breathes what is going to be underneath in Lex's thoughts after this experience. It's all going to come back here, to this place, to that realization. That's so nailed.
Lex is going to be alone forever because he can’t commit and he’s useless. No, he can commit and nobody else can. Why won’t anybody commit *to* him when they're willing to commit him? He even commits to his drugs, which is probably what got him committed in the first place, and what’s so wrong about him that nobody loves him? That nobody is willing to stick around? There’s no 666 on his hairless forehead, but maybe he’s been marked and just can’t be loved.
Oh, God. I knew I shouldn't read this in the computer lab, I knew it...
I was waiting for someone to write it, we all were. And I knew it'd hurt but...the ending, the ending just breaks everything apart all over again. Thank you.
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He knows everything.
He can conjugate verbs in Latin and recite six different alphabets backwards. He speaks French, Japanese, German and Italian fluently, and can recite the periodic table in reverse. He’s brilliant. He won the Metropolis Science Fair when he was eight. He was in MENSA at 16 and didn’t care.
I--I just really loved this.
They wrapped him up and didn’t even give him a proper burial.
When he comes back he’s going to be very angry indeed.
He’s very angry already, and it takes him forever to get to his feet when he can’t use his hands.
This sentence just breathes what is going to be underneath in Lex's thoughts after this experience. It's all going to come back here, to this place, to that realization. That's so nailed.
Lex is going to be alone forever because he can’t commit and he’s useless. No, he can commit and nobody else can. Why won’t anybody commit *to* him when they're willing to commit him? He even commits to his drugs, which is probably what got him committed in the first place, and what’s so wrong about him that nobody loves him? That nobody is willing to stick around? There’s no 666 on his hairless forehead, but maybe he’s been marked and just can’t be loved.
Oh, God. I knew I shouldn't read this in the computer lab, I knew it...
I was waiting for someone to write it, we all were. And I knew it'd hurt but...the ending, the ending just breaks everything apart all over again. Thank you.