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David Rabe Reads John Updike

The New Yorker: Fiction

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Is Life Having Weight for You?

He feels it for the notary. Simply by virtue of having spoken with her. Right. She offers to show him her house presumably because she's proud of it and she'm proud of what she's done in this gaudy dining room. You know, he's tries to be supportive to her even though he's sort of recoiling from the audience. He has that line also when he sees the garden behind the notary's house: "I saw his entire life past him to come as an errant encircling of this forgotten center" And then finally, this place that he really didn't think much about has become the center of life for him. Maybe that'll

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