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- They have no consciousness therefore. Therefore what? Therefore we are free to use them for our own ends? Therefore we are free to kill them?…
- His mouth opens. From inside him comes a slow stream, without breath, without interruption. It flows up through his body and out upon me; it…
- But he cannot see a connection between the end of yearning and the end of poetry. Is that what growing up amounts to: growing out…
- No, Paul, I couldn't care less if you tell me made-up stories. Our lies reveal as much about us as our truths.' (Said to Paul…
- So it has come, the day of testing. Without warning, without fanfare, it is here, and he is in the middle of it. In his…
- But it is the knowledge of how contingent my unease is, how dependent on a baby that wails beneath my window one day and does…
- You are going to end up as one of those sad old men who poke around in rubbish bins.” “I’m going to end up in…
- Yet what happened in fact? In the middle of the night John woke up and saw me sleeping beside him with no doubt a look…
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