Sublime

Julie and Faye are exchanging anecdotes and inclinations for the twentieth straight month. Julie tells Faye that she, Julie, best likes: contemporary poetry, unkind women, words with univocal definitions, faces whose expressions change by the second, an obscure and limited-edition Canadian encyclopedia called LaPlace’s Guide to Total Data, the

verisimilitude,

finding the untouched core of herself,

The people Crossan described as the expendables, those at the bottom of the bottom of the world’s pyramids of power.

actuarial tables.

blithe

She reads Thoreau over wood fires at night.

averred.

Gayatri Chakravorty…

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