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S1E12 | Thunder, They Told Her (with Jamaica Kincaid, James Salter, Dick Cavett, Sadie Stein, Frederick Seidel, Robert Bly, and Caitlin Youngquist)

The Paris Review

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The Sun Goes Out, if the Sun Goes Out, It Will Be Eight Minutes Before I Know It

I saw a monkey sitting in a tree that had no leaves and I said, Just look at that, a monkey. Three times I threw a stone at the monkey and three times it moved away. Then the fourth time I threw the stone, the monkey caught it and then threw it back at me. It struck me on my forehead and over my right eye, making a deep gash. The gash healed immediately, but now the skin on my forehead felt false to me. So I went back to lying in bed just before the doorbell rang. Someone rang the doorbell, I went downstairs and opened the door, but there was no one there. Either it was drizzling

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