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Ben Lerner Reads Julio Cortázar

The New Yorker: Fiction

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I Think It's a Black Holla of Primal Forces

The story is really interesting. It's a kind of groundhogday. You get a scene in which there's a knife, the aunt is watching, and it ends with bobby weeping ad and you you get it over and over again. The only thing that's actually explicitly different is that the aunt feels she sees something. Perhaps she's absorbed some part of bobby's mind and his dream. And maybe that was the final goal of the story, to kind of meld these two characters.

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