It's not as if truth were extractable from behavior, Jordan was explaining, but tents of humor regarded from afar
resemble goosebumps. What makes a faithful partner, anyway? If you have a man in your mind for longer
than a minute, you can be sure he'll stray. But mind you, there are different flavors. To grasp one in his
travels, from photon, dissolution, electrical spasms on the retinal screen; from optic nerve to laces crossed
and quavering in private three dimensions, so even with closed eyes he can see, can be--a saint
or mistake will, if he's with, have to be your honesty.
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Funny, on the ride home tonight I thought some lines: I miss my friend. / Somedays I think he could dissolve into atoms, vapors / just by thinking / that was possible.
Don't know exactly what this means, but it kind of rhymes with some of the things you've been writing lately.
Well, what time did you think that? I may have only been transcribing what you were transmitting.
A new find: Javier Marias. Check him out...
I really liked "Correspondence Abandon", by the way.
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