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It is possible to write yourself out of loneliness. Possible, too, to write yourself into being. As her body shrank, Maralyn built herself out of words, sentence by sentence. …She was still alive. Look, it said so on the page.
If any of her papers got wet, she would spend hours drying hem in the sun, handling them with the kind of care usually served for ancient texts, or as if they contained some vital formula...
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If any of her papers got wet, she would spend hours drying hem in the sun, handling them with the kind of care usually served for ancient texts, or as if they contained some vital formula...
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Now and then, in brighter moments, Maurice liked to entertain the idea that they had become at one with the Pacific, able to cohabit with its creatures as if they were of the water themselves. But times like this exposed the absurdity of such a view. Living on an ocean was possible only with a range of functioning, man-made defences to mitigate the experience.
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Maurice began to teach her how to sail, and after a few days he judged she was ready to operate the tiller on her own. Everything went we until they ploughed at speed into a riverbank. Maurice, chastising himself, had forgotten her "novice status," as he put it. They spent the afternoon digging out the boat with knives and forks, teased by passersby
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