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The New Yorker: Fiction cover image

Saïd Sayrafiezadeh Reads Samuel Beckett

The New Yorker: Fiction

CHAPTER

The Grizzly Cupboard

While head included she lies hidden under unclose inspection along great coat a man's by the buttons the button holes eyes closed does she see him white walls high time white is new no wind not a breath unbeaten and all by all that comes beating down and mystery the sun has spared them. Such equal liars both real in how ill say it's contrary the counter poison still fresh the kafur fiasco what now of all things but a trap door so cunningly contrived that even to the lidded eye it scarcely shows careful raise it at once and risk another rebuff no question simply savor in advance with in mind the grizzly cupboard its conceivable contents for the first time then wooden

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