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David Means Reads Lorrie Moore

The New Yorker: Fiction

CHAPTER

The Power of Hallucination

He had a bed sore and a catheter for a prolapsed bladder. A berrywood facility would not re-admit him until he had tested negative, so far for positives. He was supposed to meet trains and people and small groups holding meetings. Perhaps even in normal life every place a person believed they needed to be was a kind of hallucination - that was its power.

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