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Ben Lerner Reads Julio Cortázar

The New Yorker: Fiction

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'It Wasn't in the Day That She Was Mean to Him When He Was Asleep'

Juanita's mother and mario panzani's mother were also strict with their children when it was necessary. But bobby kept on looking at her sadly and explainind that it wasn't in the day that she was mean, at night when he was asleep. The two of us were flabbergasted,. i think that it was i who began to explain to him that no one is to blame for what happens in dreams... There was no need to worry that day. Bobby didn't insist. He always accepted our explanations. And he wasn't a difficult child. A few days ater, he awoke weeping and shouting. When i got to his bed, he hugged me

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