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30 Paragraphs: A Memoir
EP 48.
When I was young, I lived a nightmare, and was myself sometimes a nightmare. In 30 Paragraphs: A Memoir, I’ve tried to capture both the nightmare I lived and the nightmare I was–not punitively, to trap them, but to give them a new home.
Excerpt:
What I remember most distinctly is not any single act, but rather the sensation I felt, both empty and vast, as I watched what people did to me…I was comfortable in that vastness, and afraid of it, and I hated it, and yearned toward it, but not toward it, exactly, but toward people I thought might be familiar with it, as my grandfather seemed to be, and willing to inflict it.
When I was young, I lived a nightmare, and was myself sometimes a nightmare. In 30 Paragraphs: A Memoir, I’ve tried to capture both the nightmare I lived and the nightmare I was–not punitively, to trap them, but to give them a new home.
Excerpt:
What I remember most distinctly is not any single act, but rather the sensation I felt, both empty and vast, as I watched what people did to me…I was comfortable in that vastness, and afraid of it, and I hated it, and yearned toward it, but not toward it, exactly, but toward people I thought might be familiar with it, as my grandfather seemed to be, and willing to inflict it.
34 pages, ebook
First published December 16, 2015
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