After Brutha Fez was dead

He can be a dead father.
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Then another person will grow into his form and flesh and I will have something to hate when it is old enough to be a man.

People think about who they are in the stillest hour of the night.
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There are dead stars that still shine because their light is trapped in time. Where do I stand in this light, which does not strictly exist?
(...)
I know I'm talking to a gun who can't respond but how does she undress when she undresses?

Don DeLillo, Cosmopolis, Scribner, 2003.