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What man wanted a woman without fire, and vice-versa?Stewart Onan
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Why was he drawn to complicated women, or were all women--all people, finally--complicated?Stewart Onan
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He didn't like to fly--the noise and vibration gave him a headache--but, as with anything new, he was excited by the strangeness of it. The disjuncture intrigued him: stepping through a door in one place, sitting still for a few hours, then stepping out a thousand miles away. It seemed to him a very American mode of travel, even more so than the car, not simply going farther faster, but eliminating any temporal experience of the journey, skipping over whole sections of the country, the sole focus on arriving, with the help of expensive and arcane technologies, at one's destination, except of course, when one didn't--a thought brought on by his own instinctive disbelief and the bumpiness of the flight.Stewart Onan
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Somewhere in this latest humiliation there was a lesson in self-reliance. He'd failed so completely that he'd become his own man again.Stewart Onan