Status Updates From Real Life

“But there is a difference between entering someone, being in someone, and being with that person. There is an impossibility to the idea of simultaneously existing within them and beside them, the fact that when you get close enough to someone, you cease to be discrete entities and instead become a single surface, glittering in the sun.”

there is so much pain its like toni morrison but harsher and unrelenting and Now instead of 100 years ago but what makes it worse is that this written pain is familiar
if this is autofiction idk what to say except jesus christ

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all of Taylor's novels are about grieving sexually dysfunctional academic types which i eat up but its worth pointing out... his newest is less that way so maybe evolution is happening idk