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Ruth Barton <[log in to unmask]>
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Pre-patinated plastic gumby block w/ coin slot <[log in to unmask]>
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Sat, 1 Jan 2005 20:33:23 -0800
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HUH??????




At 10:43 AM -0500 1/1/05, Gabriel Orgrease wrote:

>Iurii sketched and mapped on a square paper napkin as his story
>unfolded, carried by the two women from his tongue into their faltered
>English and then returned the same way from me to him in further
>questions. The story folds and unfolds like origami, and here and there
>our breath falls onto the table or puffs up in small invisible clouds
>into the space between our heads. Our curiosity for the unfolded story
>pulls us closer as if our heads are hungry tapers leaned in to replenish
>a central fire. We soak up the details like graphite rods. We boil in
>the story's exposure like hot water.
>
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Ruth Barton
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