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A Bright Metal World

A Reading Life, A Writing Life, with Sally Bayley

CHAPTER

The Power of Cartwheels

She saw him go down to the gate with his brooms and pans and out to the cart. What she wanted to know was whether he really had any power over her. She did not intend him to see her this time. Lawrence repeats words over and over again. To convince us of this world of material things so the word cart is there in the space of two sentences twice. As I speak them out loud they become longer and longer, they are expanding. They are taking up more space and I am gesturing now with my left hand as though I'm trying to reach out and grab them and hold them and get them into myself.

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