its most intimate iterations
"Its Most Intimate Iterations," June 17, 2022 (#168)
title from "Mapping Black Movement, Containing Black Laughter: Ralph Ellison's New York Essays" by Cynthia Dobbs (2016)
The Last True Story I'll Ever Tell: An Accidental Soldier's Account of the War in Iraq by John Crawford (2005)
This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage by Ann Patchett (2013)
Its Most Intimate Iterations
At some level, we felt like we were all in the same shitty
snowstorm and for a long time I see nothing but the snow
and I could hear it splash onto the dry ground. I nervously shifted
damask draperies and the thick white tablecloth. He rested his
every move, and anytime I pointed at someone and yelled, he would
get so bad so fast? After the examination, the doctor said her blood
inside might only drop to one hundred degrees, but the difference was
a gladiatorial match I would surely win. My friends from home read
no harm in it. There wasn't much of a crowd that night, and assuming
things seems so unfathomable to me now that I might as well say
I knew he would hear about the same from my transmission
by what I could tell from the picture on the front of the
smoke hidden in the darkness. Much more familiar.
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South Park 16.12, "A Nightmare on Facetime," October 24, 2012
The Shining (1980)
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