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Beyond the vague cyclicality of what Purdy calls “going on living,” can there be teleology without a telos?

a more and more reified version of "myself"

In a public school closed to the public, in a suit that felt like a costume, while pretending to argue about policy, he was seized, however briefly, by an experience of prosody.

the louche appeal of caked mascara rimming huge, dewy eyes

perhaps there was some elegant subtlety to the gesture, as if it were true class to pretend their unctuous host was on equal footing