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The Guardians

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Chee, A. (2018). The Guardians. In Chee, A. How to Write an Autobiographical Novel: Essays. Mariner Books, pp. 221-243

an intense carbon arc lamp especially used in filmmaking

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The many landmarks were outlined at night by their lit windows, as if in klieg lights

—p.221 by Alexander Chee
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The many landmarks were outlined at night by their lit windows, as if in klieg lights

—p.221 by Alexander Chee
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226

We are not what we think we are. The stories we tell of ourselves are like thin trails across something that is more like the ocean. A mask afloat on the open sea.

There were moments before the memory's return when I experienced what I now understand as its absence as not a gap but a whole other self, a whole other me. [...]

—p.226 by Alexander Chee 5 years, 6 months ago

We are not what we think we are. The stories we tell of ourselves are like thin trails across something that is more like the ocean. A mask afloat on the open sea.

There were moments before the memory's return when I experienced what I now understand as its absence as not a gap but a whole other self, a whole other me. [...]

—p.226 by Alexander Chee 5 years, 6 months ago

(noun) an ode or song recanting or retracting something in an earlier poem / (noun) a formal retraction

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Edinburgh is a palinode. The gods, offended by a speech, require the speaker to make another, its opposite.

—p.233 by Alexander Chee
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Edinburgh is a palinode. The gods, offended by a speech, require the speaker to make another, its opposite.

—p.233 by Alexander Chee
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