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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

CHAPTER

I Don't Believe in a Story

Jamaica Kincaid: I just don't believe in a story. There are things to tell, of course, to be repeated. But the truth is there is no story. It's a continuation. And we end, but the thing continues indifferent to our being here. You die, the sun will rise again. Well, at some point it won't, but well, who will be here to tell that?

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