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Ben Lerner Reads John Berger

The New Yorker: Fiction

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What's the Past Participle of Tui, Wovencer?

At the end he's being taken back into a kind of cosmological register and out of the rits. And that line, what's the past participle of Tui, Wovencer, which was the title when the story came out in The New Yorker? He gathers a lot in a word like that. There's also this sense, a kind of triumphant sense, you know, I have woven the sketch and this is now the end of it. Yeah.

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