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We hit the sidewalk, and dropped hands. How I wished, right then, that the whole world was a street.

Aimee Bender

Listen. Look. Desire is a house. Desire needs closed space. Desire runs out of doors or windows, or slats or pinpricks, it can’t fit under the sky, too large. Close the doors. Close the windows.
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Blow Close Desire Door Large Listen Need Run Sky Space Window
I admired that stride; it was like he folded space in two with it.
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Admire Fold Like Space Stride Two
Sometimes, she said, mostly to herself, I feel I do not know my children…
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Children Herself Mother Thinking
It seems the best work I do is when I am really allowing the unconscious to rule the page and then later I can go back and hack around and make sense of things.
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Allow Back Best Later Page Seem Unconscious Work Writing
It’s a pleasure to dive into Hirshberg’s storytelling skills in American Morons.
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I am the drying meadow; you the unspoken apology; he is the fluctuating distance between mother and son.
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Apology Baby Distance Drying Fluctuate Life Mother Son Unspoken
I’m obsessed with adolescence. I love to write about people in their 20s.
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My eyelids are my own private cave, he murmured. That I can go to anytime I want.
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I didn’t mind the quiet stretches. It was like we were trying out the idea of being side by side.
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Idea Mind Quite Side Stretch Trying
I am not happy, help me — like a message in a bottle sent in each meal to the eater, and I got it. I got the message.
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Bottle Eater Esch Happy Help Meal Message Sent
If everything kept to its normal progression, we would live with the sadness-cry and then walk-but what really breaks us cleanest are the losses that happen out of order.
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It is so often surprising, who rescues you at your lowest moments.
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Lowest Moment Rescue Surprise
It seemed to happen in springs, the revealing of things.
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Happen Reveal Seem Spring
When language is treated beautifully and interestingly, it can feel good for the body: It’s nourishing; it’s rejuvenating.
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Glen Hirshberg’s stories are haunting, absolutely, but not only because of the content.
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He was also removing all traces of any tiny leftover parts, and suddenly a ritual which I’d always found incestuous and gross seemed to me more like a desperate act on Joseph’s part to get out, to leave, to extract every little last remnant and bring it into open air.
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Carefully Concentrate Desperate Detail Intimate Leave Open Part Remnant Ritual Time

We hit the sidewalk, and dropped hands. How I wished, right then, that the whole world was a street.

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