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Ben Lerner Reads Julio Cortázar

The New Yorker: Fiction

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Do You Dream Ugly Things or Not?

My sister said that bobby was quite dirty, and she was going to give him a bath. In the end, i was the one who bathed him because my sister still got tired in the afternoon. And i was soaping him in the bathtub, and he was playing with the plastic duck that he refused to let go of. I got up the courage to ask him if he was sleeping better these days. More or less? Are you dreaming ugly things or not? The other night i did. Did you tell your mother? No, not her. She he didn't give me time for anything. Soaped up and all, he threw himself on top of me and hugged

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