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6 years ago

I’d just completed an email, nonfiction

6/6, I got an email from Cal, replying to my own email of drunks ago. He wrote me about how “optimal” it was that this Muslim unrest had coincided with his book hiatus, and how “unabatingly obligated” he was to his editors and the reporters who’d taken his beat. As for the unrest itself, it was sti…

—p.68 Book of Numbers by Joshua Cohen
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adumbrate

A whiff of brine, a swank trestle adumbrant, Loading Only No Standing, 14th & 10th—this was Tetration’s NY HQ.

—p.67 Gut-Level Legislation, or, Redistribution (67) by Mark Greif
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thoughts have to be followed to their ends

An Asian of indeterminate everything: intention, gender, age, even Asianness. Indeterminate even if he or she were the same entity each time. Rach, at this point, would’ve condemned me for racism, though not only don’t I care and write this for myself, but as a reader I’d surely enjoy a book by an …

—p.67 Book of Numbers by Joshua Cohen
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lucubratory

(I initially noticed this reversal in our cheval glass reflection—her lucubratory loft was otherwise bare).

weird!

—p.64 Diana Abbott: A Lesson (41) by Benjamin Kunkel
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we weren’t having sex anymore

I could hand to Bible or at least Haggadah swear on all of that, but the truth was—we weren’t having sex anymore. We weren’t trying anymore. Not even trying to try again. Trying to sneak in a jerkoff sessh on the toilet. “Don’t mixup the toothbrushes.” But both of them were green, which, because th…

—p.41 Book of Numbers by Joshua Cohen