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From the Archive
“As the author’s sole remaining friend and student, all that is left for me to do is publish these notes.”
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”Before he even purchased it, he got a scale model the size of a kitten, with functional doors, windows, headlights.“
“My books remain on the shelves as I left them last year / but all the words have died.”
“One delightful side effect of all the language cultures we live with in India is how often we toggle between two or three languages when conversing.”
“Heft of fur and polyester, heft of muscle and blood. Noises commingled, that syncing of bodies real and otherwise.”
“There’s no end to the woes that mothers face come summer vacation.”
“When I learned of his transgression I threw myself into Dante and Shakespeare, seeking to understand the world that I had failed to see.”