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The Grief Performer.

"Thank you for sending along that internet stuff...I do appreciate it--especially having no computer. I'm delighted that they are talking about the novel, but Lordy, I do wish they were more intelligent."

--Letter from David Markson to Dalkey Archive, 3/26/98 via @dalkeyarchive.bsky.social

Human vs Machine.

through the dense darkness
asteroid-comet hybrid
hot on its own tracks

"I was nine years old when my family left Gwangju in January 1980, roughly four months before the mass killings began."