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The New Yorker: The Writer's Voice - New Fiction from The New Yorker cover image

Lauren Groff Reads “Annunciation”

The New Yorker: The Writer's Voice - New Fiction from The New Yorker

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Is There a Secret Intention in Your Life?

I have come think that i had a secret intention held at the very centre of my actions, so small and dark that i pretended not to see it. It is only now, when i know myself to be good and bad in equal measure, that i can glimpse it, if barely. As i took care of the mastiff that week end, griselda sat in the courtyard in a plastic chair, soaking her feet in a tub. She was telling me another of her tall tales, this time about the period when she taught philosophy at princeton back in the seventies and eighties,. And had an affair with derida, or was it negel? "It's astonishing how

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