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emily
is on page 72 of 464
‘Even if it goes against my self-interest as a pincher, I believe in groups that achieve more with less. Absence was only the promise of future presence. The setting sun reached the facades w/o having to compete with sodium & neon lights. There was freedom in dissolution, joy in disorder. Those quiet moments seemed necessary for her—memories—to coalesce—Her tone—tentative—as if there was something rude in certainty.’
— Jun 22, 2026 07:15PM
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emily
is on page 99 of 464
‘—grandmother—loved to talk about our ancestors—loved being part of the thread, and I can see now that with—anecdotes she was beginning to tie the knot that would extend the thread into the future through me. Can you imagine? Being an avid reader, she had answers to—my wider historical questions—During this—period—she did her best to pass all her stories down—our closeness anchored me—across time—infinite starlings—’
— Jun 25, 2026 07:24PM
emily
is on page 69 of 464
‘Anything can be priceless or worthless, depending on the person and the circumstances—what seemed to be junk would turn out to be the essential part needed to complete a repair. He was an archivist of obsolescence—the centre of the tinkering world. The real aristocracy had left—generations ago—leaving behind a shipwrecked world of dilapidated bygone grandeur. Dead luxury feeds a particular kind of squalor.’
— Jun 21, 2026 03:47AM
emily
is on page 39 of 464
‘I live on the wrong side of the river by choice—The river—where we dispose of our dead—superstitious loathing—swelled into—taboo. Hickory, fir, gingko, sumac. Strange—how memory sometimes blinks—abolishing cause—presenting us w/ pure effect—perhaps I retained images while losing the sound. The stubbornness of irrelevant details—she could—reproduce the narrative of how it had come to being—finding beauty in function’
— Jun 20, 2026 03:28AM
