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“Is your friend as pretty as you are? he asks. She’s a white girl, she answers. He tells her all white women look the same.”
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”On the other side of pleasure—a luxury candle, poetry, air conditioning—there is often both rapture and sleaze.“
“Ira wonders for an insane moment if he is seeing art … but then remembers he is trapped in a whale and will die alone.”
“Life— / I am of both your directions / Somehow remain hanging downward / the most / but strong as a cobweb”
“Had he not grieved so deeply, he never would have grown into the comedian he did”