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Claire-Louise Bennett Reads Maeve Brennan

The New Yorker: Fiction

CHAPTER

I Don't Want Anyone to Be Around

I don't really want anyone to be around because it compounds it. It just makes me feel even more weird. So anything a bit strange going on with you, there's someone else around it just makes you more conscious of it. Actually, yeah, if you do look at yourself through somebody else's eyes, it's always a bit discomforting really. Which makes it funny that the whole story revolves around Rose choosing not to see him, not to look at him. And it's also funny because he feels rejected obviously and who wouldn't?

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