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Saïd Sayrafiezadeh Reads Samuel Beckett

The New Yorker: Fiction

CHAPTER

The Stone That Draws Her When Revealed

High time changed the stone that draws her when revisited alone or she who changes it. The last rays rake its averse face such ill seen the stone alone where it stands at the far fringe of the pastures on her way out with the flowers as unerring as best she can. If there may not be no more questions let there at least be no more answers granite of no common variety assuredly black as jade  and then careful have her sit lie kneel go, for in the end the back and forth prevails sends her wavering north and south from wall to wall in the kindly dark.

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