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Ben Lerner Reads Julio Cortázar

The New Yorker: Fiction

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The Trinitarian Formulation of the Mother and the Aunt and the Son

The title suggests that something has been done in bobby's name. It also captures the idea that the aunt is attributing these things to bobby that aren't actually his own. You could also end it with the idea that perhaps the aunt has killed the mother, and ye sent bobby in to to witness that. And so i think, again, it's really unclear about the degree to which what's happening in this trinity of the mother and the aunt and the son is symbolic.

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