qualm (kwäm, kwôm)
n.
A sudden feeling of sickness, faintness, or nausea.
A sudden disturbing feeling: qualms of homesickness.
An uneasy feeling about the propriety or rightness of a course of action.
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"Any truth is better than indefinite doubt."
(Arthur Conan Doyle)
Question And Answer
he sat naked and drunk in a room of summer
night, running the blade of the knife
under his fingernails, smiling, thinking
of all the letters he had received
telling him that
the way he lived and wrote about
that--
it had kept them going when
all seemed
truly
hopeless.
putting the blade on the table, he
flicked it with a finger
and it whirled
in a flashing circle
under the light.
who the hell is going to save
me? he
thought.
as the knife stopped spinning
the answer came:
you're going to have to
save yourself.
still smiling,
a: he lit a
cigarette
b: he poured
another
drink
c: gave the blade
another
spin.
Charles Bukowski
