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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