Fat girl, terrestrial, my summer, my night, How is it I find you in difference, see you there In a moving contour, a change not quite completed? You are familiar yet an aberration.
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- A familiar person appears as both known and strange in their physical form.
- In plain terms
- Someone familiar also looks strange.
- What can you take from it?
- Familiarity can feel strange.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- Who feels familiar yet strange?
- How do you see others?
Another view
It may project strangeness where none exists.
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