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Smother
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Ambiguities Of The Second Person In English Language Fiction And Poetry
Let’s start with something that really happened. I was at a production of Bertold Brecht’s A Man’s a Man at a small theater in the East Village. During the first act, one of the actors ran off stage, followed by screaming, followed by a voice over th
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Second Paradise
I went for a walk with a girl I hardly knewwhen I was a boy on a trail by a riverfor a film I didn’t know was being madeby a director I couldn’t see or hearbehind his hidden camera in the cloudsand trees as we recited our linesunwittingly with no ide

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