touch
Jasmine
think
radio
Connecticut
Reach
contained
domesticity
children
here
wheel
boat
key
death
outside
the mere
tricks
late
waits
eve
sequence
thumbnail
Cleopatra
played
don't
saints
once
syntactical
radiation
talk
healing
Dresden
cellars
All this talk of glass. We are fascinated by transparency and yet somehow unable to explain ourselves, to tell our own story. Mrs Suchandsuch did this. Meanwhile Mister. A dreariness sets in which, for instance, does not afflict fantasies during sex. Or certain retrospective reveries, he says. Your story about the six pack of Pepsi and the Upper West Side when you were a young man. How it was like an elixir.

He bridles at the term, young man. On whose behalf he wonders, the man whom he has become or whatever he was then.

Perhaps we ought to seek more pleasure in our stories, she says. Like sex. Or rather more selfish pleasures.


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