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Jun 16, 2023
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I don’t know why this image seems appropriate for this post but it does. I took the picture on a flight from NYC to Dublin for a literary festival there. My TV monitor didn’t work and so my visual field was dominated by the entertainment choice of the young lady sitting next to me; she selected Puss In Boots, then paused it and went to sleep.

I thought of a line from the Tao Lin novel Taipei: “That is what the universe created, after whatever billion years,” said Paul…”

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