Ocean Vuong – A Life Worthy of Our Breath
On Being with Krista Tippett
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I Lost My Uncle, It's a Suicide
i would not have traded the experience of being with you physically. There's often an assumption in people who don't work in this medium that that makes it less intimate. You know, all that richness and drama sealed away in a fortress whose walls echoed with communication of elemental and exquisite language. Tour looking all the buildings, and yet only the fire escape. A clinging extremity, inanimate and often rusting, spoke in its hardened, exiled silence with the most visible human honesty. We are capable of disaster, and we are scared. It was such a blow. I lost my uncle. And it's the great tory, in the great violence, of taking oneself out of the picture
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