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Ottessa Moshfegh
City Arts & Lectures
The Importance of Sleeping
The reason my nameless character naps is the same reason she sleeps. She just wants to be unconscious. And so rather organically really, she starts finding herself sleeping all the time. We find out as the book goes on why she might want to avoid consciousness. There's been some stuff that's been heavy, let's say. So she kind of leans into her emptiness and wants to escape herself.
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