
ABC: Too Much and Not the Mood: Essays by Durga Chew-Bose
Slate Books
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The Mobidic Essay
This essay is one of the most successful in the book. It's like it's a machine, you know. It's an aesthetic contraption. And i think she does a really great job of balancing ambiguity with the sense of determinancy. The chord itself is such a potent symbo too, for an essayist who's trying to connect t some one else and whose thoughts are kind of travelling along a thread of connection. I just see a lot ofa diamonds scattered on the floor before me. I want to scoop them up. But i also did sometimes want them in the way that this mobidic essay is is the short little essay is,. i wanted them to come together into
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