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emily
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‘—America is still the greatest, most useless country in the world—I didn’t think it was possible for someone to read as fast as Tabby does, and for a long time I assumed she was a skimmer. But—I’d quiz her on a novel that we’d both read—she knew every detail. I’d—ask things like: “Who answers the door in the middle of chapter 7?” I tried to keep up—but it’s hard—sometimes I worry that she is turning into an alien.’
— Aug 07, 2025 05:27PM
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emily
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‘You cycle through your passwords. They tell the secret story. What’s most important to you, the things you think can’t be deciphered. Words and numbers stored in the lining of your heart—They keep changing. They blur in the brain. Every day you punch in three or four of these memory strings to access—I have seen things I never wished to see, and every night I hear the ocean.’
— Sep 16, 2025 12:37AM
emily
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‘The self-reference was—surreal at first, like someone—talking about you, but we—came to relish the closed circuit of our situation—wrote notes to each other that read like diary entries—freely expressed—Coming back from the dig site—the sky—sapphire—our lungs burned—the infinite glories of being—We tried to shed our modern sensibility—there was no guarantee that two of us would read the same line the same way’
— Aug 16, 2025 12:07AM
