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"The not blinking really bothers me, I've got to tell you. And what's this on her neck, here? On Brenda's neck?"

"Birthmark. Pimple."

"Is this an air-valve? This is an air-valve! See, here's the cap. Are you sitting with an inflatable doll?

"Don't be ridiculous."

"You're sitting with an…

"I see a trellis I have to climb."

"Gee," I say, "there are no sheets on this bed."

The mouse looks at me. "Señor," he says, "if you sheet on my bed, I will keel you."

We both laugh, and the mouse punches me on the arm.

She's not even produced, she's educed.

LENORE: Well see, it seems like it's not really like a life that's told, not lived; it's just that the living is the telling, that there's nothing going on with me that isn't either told or tellable, and if so, why the difference, why live at all?

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LENORE: Pretty keen perception. If ther…