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Who will teach me to write? a reader wanted to know.The page, the page, that eternal blankness, the blankness of eternity which you cover slowly, affirming time's scrawl as a right and your daring as necessity; the page, which you cover woodenly, ruining it, but asserting your freedom and power to act, acknowledging that you ruin everything you touch but touching it nevertheless, because acting is better than being here in mere opacity; the page, which you cover slowly with the crabbed thread of your gut; the page in the purity of its possibilities; the page of your death, against which you pit such flawed excellences as you can muster with all your life's strength: that page will teach you to write.

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I only meant, you know, you shouldn__ be wasting your time on imbeciles. I know how hard it is to find the right person, but that__ no reason to exhaustively work your way through all the wrong people. You seem to be living your romantic life by some kind of process of elimination. It__ like matching a Louis Quatorze armchair with one of those plastic patio tables. It simply doesn__ work._ __h, I see,_ Bel said. ____ an armchair, is that it?_ __ Louis Quatorze armchair,_ I qualified. __nd my boyfriends are patio tables._ __ctually,_ I remembered, __his one__ more like one of those self-assembly Swedish wardrobes.