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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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What Have You Been Doing Lately?

I fell and I fell over and over as if I were an old suitcase. On the sides of the deep hole I could see things written, but perhaps it was in a foreign language because I couldn't read them. Still I fell for I don't know how long. As I fell, I began to see that I didn't like the way falling made me feel. Falling made me feel sick and I missed all the people I had loved. So I said, I don't want to fall anymore and I reversed myself. I was standing again on the edge of thedeep hole. And I looked at the deep hole and I said, you can close up now - and it did.

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