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Rachel Cusk & Siemon Scamell-Katz on Writing, Painting and the Vanishing Sublime

The Shakespeare and Company Interview

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The Memory of a Child

When his father was dying, el was often alone at his bedside. And he frequently noticed fresh bruises and other marks on his father's skin that only his mother could have put there. He sometimes wondered whether his father had died just to get away from her. But he couldn't believe that his father would have wanted to leave him there by himself. While his father did the accounts or the yard work, l was nearly always by his side. His mother used to ask him to touch her. She complained that he never showed her any affection. When she asked him to rub her feet or knead her shoulders, he was revolted by the physical reality of her. In this way,

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