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dnf. If I can read this much of a book and can walk away, I will.

“One of the magic tricks of repetition is that it *enacts* remembering. Thanks about it: memory is a kind of haunting, so repetition is a kind of haunting in a text.”

“I don’t want what I write—or what I read— to be “safe.” I’m not seeking to be made comfortable, or to be appeased, or to have my ideas confirmed. I want to be challenged, to feel deeply, to think hard.”

“It takes confidence to be spare—to hand the reader an image or an idea, and to resist the urge to explain. Overwriting comes from a lack of trust in ourselves and the reader. “

All that was needed was time and nature. Anything that had lived could
make itself useful in death.