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Ben Lerner Reads Julio Cortázar

The New Yorker: Fiction

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The Long Knife

Bobby and my sister were already asleep, and they could be heard moving or sighing from time to time. They were sleeping so well, much better than i lying there thinking all night long. And of course, i finally sought out bobby in the gard after i saw him look at my sister that way again. And i asked him to help me transplant a massstick. He confided in me that janita had a sister who was engaged, naturally, she's big. I told him, look, go get me the long knife from the kitchen, so we can cut these rafias. He ran off, as always, because there was no one better than he for

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