#Jonathan Lethem

I am relaxed. It’s just buried under layers of incredulity and panic. But underneath those I’m very relaxed.

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Listen to me. I’m shy. I’m not stupid. I can’t meet people’s eyes. I don’t know if you understand what that’s like. There’s

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Listen to me. I’m shy. I’m not stupid. I can’t meet people’s eyes. I don’t know if you understand what that’s like. There’s

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Apologies aren’t something you want to get in the habit of practicing in the mirror.

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Her fiercest sincerities were translated by the male ego, on arrival, into daffy flirtation.

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The key to mostly anything is pretending your first time isn’t.

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My homes have been improbably information-dense, like capsules for survival of a nuclear war, or models of the interior of

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Listen to me. I’m shy. I’m not stupid. I can’t meet people’s eyes. I don’t know if you understand what that’s like. There’s

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Not everything needed to rise to converge: It could just drift together into the indiscernible middle, and bewilder you.

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It was entirely possible that one song could destroy your life. Yes, musical doom could fall on a lone human form and crush

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Listen to me. I’m shy. I’m not stupid. I can’t meet people’s eyes. I don’t know if you understand what that’s like. There’s

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We were also sure that sentences of the right quality could end this hideous endless war, if only certain standards were

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Listen to me. I’m shy. I’m not stupid. I can’t meet people’s eyes. I don’t know if you understand what that’s like. There’s

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By trying to export myself into a place that didn’t fully exist I asked works of art to bear my expectation that they could

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Listen to me. I’m shy. I’m not stupid. I can’t meet people’s eyes. I don’t know if you understand what that’s like. There’s

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