fictions

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Cities were built to measure time, to remove time from nature. There’s an endless counting down. . . .  When you strip away all the surfaces, when you see into it, what’s left is terror. This is the thing that literature was meant to cure.

Don DeLillo, from Point Omega

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Writing is a matter of pitting one’s stories about the world against those the world tells about itself and seeing what can be figured out.

from “Ridin’ the Rail”

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