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… to love a line by Catullus: “Calling all syllables!” They’d come. Now they don’t. I’m not sure I need them to. Even a … I read. I give up the voice in my head for a stranger’s. I also give up meat and sugar. Salt and beer. I give up hours … are listening for the words, the right ones. When you are coming to terms. Or maybe the terms will come to me. I look …
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… City. Behind the high wall of the police-headquarters complex, the cars are piled three, four, even five high, their rusted bodies giving the area around them the feel of a junkyard. For … nor has he been captured by any branch of the same. October 26, 1972: Information is released that he is not detained by …
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… even the truth,” one translation reads. This nonpossession points back toward the nondual: part of what isn’t … coal-heated cottage in Northumberland. One night—March 26, 2007—I turned on the television. The reception was just … look like, lived fully through, between opposing soldiers and peoples, between neighbor and neighbor. The heart …
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… of microbiology at the University of Tennessee, studies microbes that have absurdly long lifespans. Many of … of how long we’d been traveling. All the usual reference points of existence—light, a horizon line, sky—were gone. … stayed in her cave for eighty-eight days, and Senni went 126 days before emerging. When Laures came out, on March 12, …
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… taking your dollars. The horse’s head in my living room comes from one of these shops. Mounted on a wooden platform, … Engineering, Sapporo University.” Though Japanese, he studied in Europe, including a stint at New College, Oxford. … on China is for the future to tell us. Dr. No, a skeptic, points to the napkins on the restaurant table. “There is the …
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… pasts they arrive from and the futures they promise if we become so bold as to forget that the stories we tell to scare … la cerveza más fina —was rumored to contain a special ingredient: urine. This was, of course, untrue, but the rumor … the cheap now that it has lost its hermetic seal, but you also have to accept the potential for food poisoning. It’s …