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Ottessa Moshfegh Reads David Means

The New Yorker: Fiction

CHAPTER

The Impossible

I relate very much to that sensation that he describes getting sort of lost in the sway of the cosmos. That kind of overwhelming smallness and awe in the symmetry of everything. It's this, to me, a really baffling place of being nothing and seeing everything at the same time. Sort of like being dead, I guess. And sort of what I imagine being dead to be like. Does that make any sense? Yeah.

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