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      …there were long periods of his childhood when he was waiting, in a dressing room, alone in the apartment, so that in some ways when I looked back on his childhood, he was at once there but also not there. Or perhaps it was that I was at once there but also not there, as if Xavier's childhood had taken place in my vicinity, with the details somehow escaping me.
    
    
      — Oct 07, 2025 06:24PM
    
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      I opened the box….Perhaps my reactions were in some ways secondhand or performed-the gasp of delight, for example-but the feeling they were designed to express was sincere….
    
    
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      Oct 07, 2025 09:32PM
    
    
      Looking forward to see what you make of this. "Or perhaps it was that I was at once there but also not there" - an almost Blanchot-like phrase that eluded me on first reading.
    
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