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“He is swimming downhill, backward through time.”
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"I want to talk about Valencia’s achievement in transmitting the conjoined rush of being young, being high, being in love, and becoming a writer—and how that rush feels when these things are pursued all at once, with great abandon."
“Humor doesn’t cut it, or romance, or lyricism—no, no, no. Only terror works.”
On retro screen savers, Bianca Rae Messinger’s pleasureis amiracle, and Grandma’s iMac.
“The war is over. / The builders come: / they build doors with archways; the ceilings are high”
“My colleague Alassio is the only person left at the school where I teach who believes that the working class is the engine of history.”
“The illustrations collected here depict some of the unverifiable experiences that Montague later catalogued in a handwritten autobiography.”