insisting on a somatic sympathy

"Insisting on a Somatic Sympathy," August 19, 2022 (#231)

title from Brian De Palma's Split Screen by Douglas Keesey (2015)

Dick (1999)

The Dick Gibson Show by Stanley Elkin (1971)

Moby-Dick, or The Whale by Herman Melville (1851)

penultimate line from In My Time: A Personal and Political Memoir by Dick Cheney (2011)

Insisting on a Somatic Sympathy

I think you've done enough, what with bumbling the

nooks and crannies of the thing, as if a bus were some

shame upon all cowards.—Hist! above there, I hear ivory

can stand off to the side and do my special whistle

to check up on us. That's when they discovered the

story on that head; and, as for his strength, let me say, that

this is everything about him and us since we first met,

waiting to see what he would do. Just keep cool,

pleated with riddles; dumbly lowering with the doom of

the document you mentioned on the phone, it was

some dreamy little treehouse place where I can escape

through the tall grass of a rolling prairie: as when the western

helped us review tax returns and answer questions about

a particularly incriminating tape I brought home.

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