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How beautiful you must be to have been able to lead me this far with only the sound of your going away heard once at a time and then remembered in silence when the time was gone you whom I have never seen o forever invisible one whom I have never mistaken for another voice nor hesitated to follow

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Person that exists in reference to another

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caught in the center of a soundless field while brief but also endless hours go by

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re: /post/771327619956457472 -- it's been some time since i read it (early 2020) but i think you might enjoy chaim potok's The Chosen.

thank you!! if anything my string of disappointing books has gotten worse, so i appreciate the recommendation sm 💛

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"some criterion of excellence by which he was chosen"

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Source details and larger version.

Vintage baseball imagery.

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i genuinely didn't know that there's a new bachmann translation coming out next year. and it was announced months ago. i've been under a rock

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a density of experience because although it was brief it was also endless the relation between the duration of the narrated and the duration of the narration is rarely comfortable time passes, but the kind of time that passes is cordoned off within the central section, like a condemned corridor within the narrative

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Whatever the loved being becomes, in any case I never see him disappear. I myself cannot construct my love story to the end; the end, like my own death, belong to others

This may be the last time I talk about Lila with a wealth of detail.

and almost can't be done