the knotty symbiosis between
"The Knotty Symbiosis Between," September 13, 2022 (#256)
title from "America Has a Problem and Beyoncé Ain't It" by Wesley Morris (July 31, 2022)
The Hot Zone: A Terrifying True Story by Richard Preston (1994)
The Dead Zone by Stephen King (1979)
End Zone by Don DeLillo (1972)
The Discomfort Zone: A Personal History by Jonathan Franzen (2006)
Into the Forbidden Zone: A Trip Through Hell and High Water in Post-Earthquake Japan by William T. Vollmann (2011)
The Knotty Symbiosis Between
I don’t remember much of the pain. The only pain I can talk about
saw them every afternoon at the hospital, waiting patiently for
everybody yelling, bodies rolling and bouncing on the scant grass
only to satisfy myself that it was still trashy and repellent.
Although the airport was not open, heating gas remained
off a little bit of fluid from the flasks and injected it into
a sign. The person making any kind of intelligible comment
for that flying saucer symposium or whatever it is
was the double bind from which our playing with Mr. Knight
came more lovely silver-white plum blossoms in the dusk.
Nature is anything but simple. This emerging virus was
not a publicity hound, okay. I was wrong about that
last play of the game. The blind side. They got the knee. They
were paddling with all deliberate speed into the cover of dense
manicured pines, then gazed over blank empty pavement.
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Jeune servante (Waiting Maid) by Chaïm Soutine c.1933 (here)