#AMREADING DAVID
BUTLER, CITY OF DIS.
This
story of an innocent going through a series of doomed relationships offers some
brilliant definitions:
- Celebrity: Someone who is known by people he doesn’t know
- Poetry: A branch of astrology which takes itself seriously
- Animals: Reptiles – lifeless fossils, hippo –a snout in the steaming water, wolves – in perpetual motion animated by ancestral hunger
- Absence: The imagined presence of the other, so delicious, so soon short-circuited by reality
- Potential: He always gave the impression that he was rising toward an aphorism. But as usual, the aphorism failed to materialize.
- Helplessness: A pond with sides too steep or slippery to climb out. You scramble at them, but you never lift yourself much above the water.
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