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And though the coldness I have always felt leaves me, the numbness doesn’t and probably never will. this relationship will probably lead to nothing… this didn’t change anything. I imagine her smelling clean, like tea.

Bret Easton Ellis

With “Taipei” Tao Lin becomes the most interesting prose stylist of his generation…
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Generations Interesting Stylist
Rock ‘n’ roll. Deal with it.
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Deals People Rock Roll
I feel like I’m not smart enough to answer the questions I’m asked.
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Answers Enough Smart
I don’t really need to pretend, because it’s who I am, an emotional vampire. I’ve just come to expect it. Vampires are real. That I was born this way. That I feed off of other people’s real emotions. Search for this night’s prey. Who will it be?
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Emotional Except Motion People Real Vampire
I was simply imitating reality, a rough resemblance of a human being, with only a dim corner of my mind functioning
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Corner Functioning Imitating Resemblemnce Simply
It’s as if her mind is having a hard time communicating with her mouth, as if she is searching for a rational analysis of who I am, which is, of course, an impossibility: there… is… no… key.
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Analysis Communicating Key Mind Rational
No one is drawn to writing about being happy or feelings of joy.
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Feelings Joy Writing
What does that mean know me, know me, nobody ever knows anybody else, ever! You will never know me.
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Anybody Ever Life Mean
There are no more barriers to cross. All I have in common with the uncontrollable and the insane, the vicious and the evil, all the mayhem I have caused and my utter indifference toward it I have now surpassed.
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Evil Pain Punishment
At Columbus Circle, a juggler wearing a trench cloak and top hat, who is usually at this location afternoons and who calls himself Stretch Man, performs in front of a small, uninterested crowd; though I smell prey, and he seems worthy of my wrath.
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Men Moving Odds
Do you wear a diaphragm everywhere you go?’ I want to scream, but stop myself because the idea really excites me.
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Ideas Scream Want
I’ve been accused of being very vain about my apathy.
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Accused Apathy Vain
And as the elevator descents, passing the second floor, and the first floor, going even father down, I realize that the money doesn’t matter. That all that does is that I want to see the worst
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Elevator Father Passing Second
You learn to move on without the people you love.
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Learn Love Moving People
So what do I do? Toss a handful of change into the tank when none of the zookeepers are watching. It’s not the seals I hate——it’s the audience’s enjoyment of them that bothers me.
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Animal Audience Enjoyment Watch Zookeeper
Devastates me and I make a mental note to ask him where he purchases his hair-care products, which kind of mousse he uses, my final guesses after mulling over the possibilities being Ten-X.
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Devastate Lowering Mental Mote Sunglasses

And though the coldness I have always felt leaves me, the numbness doesn’t and probably never will. this relationship will probably lead to nothing… this didn’t change anything. I imagine her smelling clean, like tea.

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And though the coldness I have always felt leaves me, the numbness doesn’t and probably never will. this relationship will probably lead to nothing… this didn’t change anything. I imagine her smelling clean, like tea.

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