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Akhil Sharma Reads Joyce Carol Oates

The New Yorker: Fiction

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Is the Attic Like a Zombi?

The idea of creating a zombi for my own purposes came to me in a brain storm five years ago. The earth is continually bombarded by high speed cosmic rays. As much as 90 % of the universe's mass is in unseen black holes. Most of the universe is therefore undetectable by our instruments, and may not obey the laws of physics as we know them. It was a darkened lecture amphitheatre at the university where i had hidden myself to hear professor r p lecture and his students. I must have nodded off in the back row. And when i woke up, i did not where i was at first,. which happened sometimes, then when i was not so much

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