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Joseph McElroy

Night Soul and Other Stories

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  • Peterjornцитирует4 года назад
    I did not need to die in my own country; and then I did not die at all.
  • Peterjornцитирует4 года назад
    I must read only children’s books (Mandelstam writes),

    Cherish only children’s thoughts,

    Scatter all big things far and wide,

    Rise up from the deep-rooted sadness.

    I know what he means, but…

    Employment: that’s number one right now…

    What is my job? The future. Helping this boy…
  • Peterjornцитирует4 года назад
    The Bridge in pieces and angles of itself—adrift like our seasons.
  • Peterjornцитирует4 года назад
    Ali—I thought of him, if I could save him, but from what? And there he is in the doorway when his uncle—for how did I know it was that irritable, nephew-loving atlas of learning long-legged, a fugitive back home where life at noon like mission accomplished might cost nothing to cancel—swerving off the cement path toward a lone forsythia bush fell headlong tripped up it seemed by a pistol shot’s synchrony and slow-legged into silence as natural as anything?
  • Peterjornцитирует4 года назад
    What is my job? To see what a child is seeing
  • Peterjornцитирует4 года назад
    Seasons sometimes like minutes if you’re ready.
  • Peterjornцитирует4 года назад
    “Shakira,” adding, “You people have the greatest names.” “Debit or credit?” is the reply I deserve. “You ladies here at the register.”
  • Peterjornцитирует4 года назад
    He even told his Sharah bedtime stories out of that game (or truthfully that the designer had stolen).
  • Peterjornцитирует4 года назад
    Da Vinci those call him who think that was his name, said uncle, who confirmed that Leonardo had set out to move a river. Nomads would not do that. They would cross it.
  • Peterjornцитирует4 года назад
    “Gone,” I find the word to answer him, a nine-year-old. He suddenly becomes my friend.
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