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‘Not will they welcome
‘the concept, not
‘the concept … (that being what one usefully does against loneliness).
‘Whereas we in the villages, must share our nightingales.
‘Somebody brackets their body and somebody
‘doesn’t bracket their body.
‘Each thing changes into a bare unit of wit
‘which offers a repose at best.
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For more than six hundred pages and for four months I didn't understand why Stavrogin was so evil until I sputtered tears into rosehip tea and read his letter calling her to come to him as his nurse:

"Realize, also, that I do not pity you, since I'm calling you, and do not respect you, since I'm waiting for you to come. And yet I call and wait."

Life? A Romance. By whom? Anonymous.
We spell it out; it makes us laugh and weep,
            And then puts us
              To sleep.

dépêches-toi, dépêches-toi, et attends.

For a week now,
I've been travelling around my house, exploring it like something new, finding new light, new corners, new shadows.


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