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Ottessa Moshfegh Reads David Means

The New Yorker: Fiction

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The Story of Aristotle

The story of a man who lost his battle with cancer continues to fascinate you. You can't help but find yourself against your better nature, feeling the big sway and spin of the cosmos. It's not just that he took his boots off and leaped from the palisade and lifted his hands and flew out over the river. No, it's the fact that he never had a chance to fly or that each time you visited him, he seemed to be only slightly better.

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