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Empathizing With the Abyss

Empathizing With the Abyss

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Mary Gaitskill
Jan 20, 2023
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I got another response to my request for people’s written stories about their experiences with something that could be described as an abyss. It’s by an artist named Peter; one of the most striking things about his piece (to me) is that his artist’s mind reflexively created a single metaphorical image for what he was feeling which was a kind of psychic…

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