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"I hear him in the bathroom. A ghost peeing upright. Pure pissing spirit. What sort of a world is this?"

"...I felt understood. I uttered sentences that were heard and heard the words that were spoken."

"...It was like the time after we first met, only more intense and possibly–or so it seems to me now–with an undertone of quiet desperation, but that is not how we saw it. There was the feel of electrically charged skin, the way our sentences flowed together when we talked. There was something in the air between us, an intensity, a dense network of connections..."

"Now, I remembered those as the happiest days. Ever. I felt loved. [...] There was nothing unusual in this. It was no different from before the eighteenth of November, only stronger, and there was nothing we had to do. This was a time that did not run away with us."

"Maybe we are a weather system—condensation and evaporation: we are together, we look at one another, we touch one another, we condense, we come together, we make love, we fall asleep, we wake and revert to our strange bond, a quiet weather system..."