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Rachel Cusk Reads “The Stuntman”

The New Yorker: The Writer's Voice - New Fiction from The New Yorker

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The Female Sex in Stone

How could the female sex be commemorated in stone? Its basis lies in repetition without permanence. This notion seemed to illuminate the germ of creativity in my assassin's blow. Her actions made no sense, were apparently insane, and yet they were entirely comprehensible. For a long time she felt that she had evaded Dee's knowledge of her. Some incapacity in him that was perhaps a form of kindness or consideration prevented him from knowing her completely.

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