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“The War has been reconfiguring time and space into its own image. The track runs in different networks now. What appears to be destruction is really the shaping of railroad spaces to other purposes, intentions he can only, riding through it for the first time, begin to feel the leading edges of. ...” (261)
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The bomb, the color mauve, cephalopods, sex, lots of sex, colored stars, Pavolov, casinos, nazis, seances, spies, double agents, gross candy, ugly neckties, drooling dogs, Poisson distributions, German West Africa, BDSM, sadomasochism, ovens, Hansel & Gretel, the sea, angels, heat death & the laws of thermodynamics….need I go on?
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The church is as cold as the night outside.
There's the smell of damp wool, of bitter on the breaths of these pro-fessionals, of candle smoke and melting wax, of smothered farting, of hair tonic, of the burning oil itself, folding the other odors in a maternal way, more closely belonging to Earth, to deep strata, other times, and listen... listen: this is the War's evensong, the War's canonical hour… 132
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There's the smell of damp wool, of bitter on the breaths of these pro-fessionals, of candle smoke and melting wax, of smothered farting, of hair tonic, of the burning oil itself, folding the other odors in a maternal way, more closely belonging to Earth, to deep strata, other times, and listen... listen: this is the War's evensong, the War's canonical hour… 132