[atlantajoseph]

Originally Posted by Ray Jackson

So I stood there in the aisles of the Noble and realized that I have not simply experienced this trilogy as a passive viewer...rather, in my inscrutable way...I have lived it. And thus I cannot bear to live with it as a collection of memories on my bookshelf.

A man comes to a point in his life when he realizes that memories are no longer bittersweet.

...they are the thorns of experience upon which the defeated fall and bleed.

Well damn.