Baraka_Guru

Back in the day, a bunch of Surrealists created a compositional game, whereby each collaborator adds to a composition in sequence.

I'd like to play this game with anyone who's willing. Let's see what sort of strings we can create by following certain rules.

We can change the rules as we go along, but let's start in a straightforward manner:

1. Each composition may only be one sentence long.
2. Each sentence must be placed in spoiler tags* with the exception of the last few words (your discretion, but no more than 3). For example, if I were to write, "He used the knife to cut the apple in half," I would use spoiler tags to submit it like so: Spoiler: He used the knife to cut the apple in half.
3. You may choose to make associations, either directly or indirectly, based on the exposed words. Do not read the hidden parts of the sentences.
4. You are not permitted to read the complete sentences until we agree to stop the overall composition. Once we do so, we will string them together into one post for all to read.

*Spoiler tags are set as: [ spoiler] [/ spoiler] (with no spaces within the brackets)

I will start.

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Spoiler: Reading a book is much like writing, except the author in this case is dead.

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Knowing that death is certain and that the time of death is uncertain, what's the most important thing?
—Bhikkhuni Pema Chödrön

Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
—From "Burnt Norton," Four Quartets (1936), T. S. Eliot