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The goodbyes

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Sonatas. Rain. Musical animals. Angels. Braided intersections. Architraves. Office buildings in sunsets. Those puppet theatres you used to be able to make up from the backs of breakfast cereals packets. . . . Sexual encounters in modernized fairy-tales. Science Fiction …

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Sonatas. Rain. Musical animals. Angels. Braided intersections. Architraves. Office buildings in sunsets. Those puppet theatres you used to be able to make up from the backs of breakfast cereals packets. . . . Sexual encounters in modernized fairy-tales. Science Fiction and disguised nostalgia. Some portraits . . . Music, not painting, as paradigm. Large rhythmic units, not 'metrically exact lines', not iambics except as ancestral ghosts . . .

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"Sonatas. Rain. Musical animals. Angels. Braided intersections. Architraves. Office buildings in sunsets. Those puppet theatres you used to be able to make up from the backs of breakfast cereals packets. …"

— Margaret

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