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Donald Antrim Reads Donald Barthelme 2021

The New Yorker: Fiction

CHAPTER

The Balloon, a Symbol of Change

People began, in a curious way, to locate themselves in relation to aspects of the balloon. It was suggested that what was admired about the balloon was finally this, that it was not limited or defined. Removal of the balloon was easy. Trailer trucks carried away the depleted fabric, which is now stored in west virginia,. awaiting some other time of unhappiness, some time perhaps, when we were angry with one another. I met you under the balloon on the occasion of your return from norway. You asked if it was mine. I said, it was the balloon. The amount of specialized training currently needed and the consequent desirability of long term commitments has been occasioned by

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