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Zuzia is on page 161 of 192

The night intervened, as it so often did.

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Every single one of us on this ruined earth exhibited a perfect obedience to our local forces of gravity, daily choosing the path of least resistance, which while entirely and understandably human was at the same time the most barbaroc, the most abominable course of action.

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Zuzia is on page 105 of 192

And yet if I had learned anything in my life it was that in the world of creation, nothing stayed still.

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I wanted so badly to live in my life, wanted to meet it head on, wanted above all for something to happen, for this terrible yearning to be quenched.

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Zuzia is on page 65 of 192

I had my rituals. I denied myself in every way possible.

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I was not from the place, and so I was not anything.

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For my life which had proceeded up to that point without any major tragedy or disaster, no love lost having never been gained.

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It was a young tree with long red osiers- now why should that have made me so terribly sad.

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Zuzia is on page 47 of 192

And yet there it was: presence and absence twisting together.

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Zuzia is on page 40 of 192

For my part I learned that nobody got what they deserved.

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I learned early on that money could clean you up and make you anybody.

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After years of denial, of immersing myself among strangers, if I had learned anything it was that I had no people if not them, and yet over the course of my adult life, and although I searched high and low, there never seemed to be any around.

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Zuzia is on page 13 of 192

This attitude presented its own set of problems - namely, that meekness brings out the sadist in people, the atavistic desire to bite at the heels of the runt of the litter.

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In their minds, with their eyes closed, they were with someone entirely other, not me - the tender kiss on the hairline, the holding of the back of the head, the grasping of the wrist, none of it was directed at me, all of it was for someone else, from before, some beloved, lost long ago.

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They had committed the most grevious sins against one another, culminating finally in each speaking aloud the terrible truth of the other's personality.

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The match had been doomed from the start, my brother said as he drove through the rain, they had shared too much about themselves, knew too much about one another for mutual respect to be possible.

Crazy, they hate each other so much

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Zuzia is on page 10 of 192

What little I knew of men suggested that they were constitutionally incapable of being alone, terrified of not being admired and seemed to regard ageing and its effects as personal failings.

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In truth, I never had helped myself. I left quietly.

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Zuzia is on page 2 of 192

In this process, I would become reduced, diminished, ultimately I would become clarified, even cease to exist. I would be good. I would be all that had ever been asked of me.

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I continued to spend the long years since childhood cultivating solitude.

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Providing them with the greatest possible succour, filling them up only so they could demand more, always more, demands to which I acceded.

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I attended to their every desire, smoothed away the slightest discomfort with perfect obedience, with the highest degree of devotion so that over time, their desires became mine.

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