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[...] the patients there couldn't remember the names for things, televisions, water, doors ... and so under Gramma Lenore's influence he had them identified with their function? [...] So the door is 'What we go from room to room through'? Water is 'What we drink, without color'? Television is 'What…

"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…

"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.

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…

"Making me come. Me as a person," said Vlad the Impaler. "Where is that ditzy bitch?"

"Sorry about that."