The illness has only made certain ambivalences I’d always been conscious of that much more acute.

Ben Doller

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Tangled

Me and my wife were interested in avoiding style, in eliminating voice, in getting away from the poetry logics, textures, and propulsions that we normally employ in our writing. But we arrived at even this organically and separately.
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Separately
Life versus Death, the absolute randomness of one’s position, privilege, and place, the lot one draws, and so on. It has made previously suspicious-seeming clichés seem more tolerable.
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Position Previously Random
Love may not be all you need, but it is certainly a necessity. My desire to survive has been exponentially magnified by the fact that there is someone intimately tangled up in me who would be left alone with the world.

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Love may not be all you need, but it is certainly a necessity. My desire to survive has been exponentially magnified by the fact that there is someone intimately tangled up in me who would be left alone with the world.
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Someone Exponentially
Suddenly we had become these people who didn’t drink anything but kale, who ended many of our conversations with tears, and for whom no future was guaranteed. It was kind of funny.

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Suddenly we had become these people who didn’t drink anything but kale, who ended many of our conversations with tears, and for whom no future was guaranteed. It was kind of funny.
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Anything Conversation Drink Ended Guaranteed
The illness has only made certain ambivalences I’d always been conscious of that much more acute.

BEN DOLLER

The illness has only made certain ambivalences I’d always been conscious of that much more acute.
BEN DOLLER

Tangled
Me and my wife had somehow finally reached a moment in which our lives made sense, in which we were comfortable in certain material ways, and in that very moment we were faced with a medical situation that could only really be resolved with death or time.

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Me and my wife had somehow finally reached a moment in which our lives made sense, in which we were comfortable in certain material ways, and in that very moment we were faced with a medical situation that could only really be resolved with death or time.
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Comfort Tie
I think something many of us grapple with are those times we dread the practice of writing, no matter the project.
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Dread

The illness has only made certain ambivalences I’d always been conscious of that much more acute.

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