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... instead of spelling stories you spread silence, which was outside the alphabet.Lauren Slater
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I didn't know then that the mind, like the earth, has several layers: a crust, a mantle, a boiling core.Lauren Slater
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Finally the dawn came, the sky fringed with pink, and the sun bright as a coin in a spill of rising red.Lauren Slater
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...tethered to the ground by quotidian conversation.... the window rosy with anemic November light.Lauren Slater
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...the clear water the color of deeply steeped tea, surrounded by cattails and gracile grasses.Lauren Slater
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I never said to myself, I am longing; that feeling lived at a level below language.Lauren Slater
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It is a fundamental misperception, " Fouts says to me, "to think human life has more value than any other life form.Lauren Slater