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“There is an essay on the language of the dying. The dying sometimes speak of themselves in the third person. I was not speaking that way. I said: I am bleeding. I am going to bleed to death. And I will be lucky if I die before he returns. Give me my Scallop shell of quiet. You know, they did not print the whole of the Indian song in the subway. Only a few lines. But I know the poem. 'It's off in the distance. It came into the room. It's here in the circle.' I know the poem. She knows the poem.”

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“The trees in the park swayed and shuddered in anticipation, with delight or dread I do not know.”

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“I know the sort of man who likes me. So I wondered, not for the first time, what secret I might possess, what magic charm or talisman had allowed me to get Malloy's attention in the first place. To get him to fuck me. I am not the kind of woman he likes.”

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“These things happened to me, too, I wasn't just the perpetrator. I wasn't only the bad one. I want you to know that.”

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“And I'd said, wouldn't it be easier if you just hit me once in the face, and got it over with?”

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“I don't know where I am. My mind races. I feel like if I started to run, I'd never stop.”

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“I think it may have something to do with something I heard when I was a kid. Something I think I heard. Actually, I know, know for a fact, that I heard something.”

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“You like it. I probably wouldn't. I'm really only interested in my own behavior.”

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“There was something different in his voice, as if he were hurrying me along, moving me past something before I saw it.”

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“I didn't think I seemed like the sort of person who would mind." "What?" "I'd have fucked you anyway." . . . "I thought I'd lose you," he said at last. "Have you ever told me the truth?" "Look—" he paused. "People lie to me all day long. And I lie to them all day long. I've done it all my life.”

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“He was convincing. Lying as cultural attribute. A hazard of the job. And I fell for it. It did not occur to me that he lies simply because he likes it. Lies to bosses. Lies on the stand. He boasts about it. Lies under oath. It's called testilying, he'd told me. Lies to women, especially to women. Starting with his mother and working his way through all of us. His wife. The doll collection. He couldn't be bothered to tell the truth.”

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“I was finding it difficult to speak with any vivacity, any pleasure. I wanted to get off the phone. I wanted him to feel bad, too.”

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“I do not remember too much now. Certain things. Certain images. All sorts of irrational, irrational because nonsensically inappropriate, pieces of information stream through my head, as if my unconscious were bombarding me with words and phrases, an enemy agent subverting a radio broadcast.”

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“Sometimes when I am not expecting it, when I let down my guard for a moment, allowing the thousands, the millions of little synapses in my head to work their will, conveying to me just what it is that I cannot bear to know, cannot bear to be known, I do remember.”

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“As always, I was pulled in by the small gesture. It was all that I knew about him, and it was perilous to me.”

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“Will you tell me?" I asked. "Tell you what?" He spoke flatly, as if he dreaded my question and already knew that he would answer it. "What you did." "Why do you think that knowing makes a difference?" "I've thought that all my life." "Well, you're wrong. Knowing don't mean shit.”

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“I am so ashamed by the things that used to make me unhappy.”

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“There's something I know but I don't know it yet. It's driving me nuts.”

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“It began to rain in that rushed and urgent way that it rains in New York.”

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“I wanted to talk to him. To hear his dangerous voice, the voice that he used with women ('Hi, baby, how you doin'? Sittin' on the phone?' The 'hi' drawn out in a low, implicating whisper.) I wanted to hear the coldness that was so deep . . . That coldness of spirit that had made it so thrilling to get his attention.”

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“I was thinking that everything had changed in an instant, changed in a way that neither he nor I might mind.”

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“His sudden falling-away, his tentativeness, his loss of will, made me dislike him, and I realized that I was disappointed.”

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“He was looking at me in a way that he never had before. Impatient. A little bored. As if I were not so smart after all.”

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“Nowhere could I find peace.”

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“I was thinking about that, my heart suddenly full of despair.”

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“I'd kissed him on the mouth, put my tongue in his mouth, and I knew that I did not know how to stop it. I had forgotten how to stop it.”

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“Afraid, now that I knew what I wanted. What I did not want. I did not want him to hurt me.”

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“Listen, you don't want me. Only you don't know it. You just think you do. I've been thrown out of a lot of places.”

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“I felt such desire for him, such murderous and vengeful desire, that I was trembling.”

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“I asked him not to hurt me. It seems to be what women say. And men. It did not stop him.”

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“My belated recognition of his desire actually served the purpose of provoking me to consider him, if only for a moment. It was like high school when just to hear that a boy liked you was sufficient encouragement to agree to go steady with him by the end of the day. Now that I think of it, it is just like life. Not high school.”

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“. . . and with a low moan he entered me with such ease, such presumption, that I began to come the moment he was inside of me.”

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“His orgasm was short, doubled and tripled with a quick convulsion, so private, so disciplined that he made no cry, no whisper, no exhortation.”

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“. . . sighing as if he regretted leaving, although I thought not, that sudden oncoming of emptiness and sadness washing over me then, too.”

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“And although I wanted to think about him, it would have to wait until the next day, perhaps until I was on the subway, where I seem to have most of my more interesting thoughts.”

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“And there was still pleasure in it. A man who knew he could fuck.”

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“Maybe you got a date in the city. You're going to get laid. A stranger, someone new, 'cause you wouldn't take the trouble for someone you already fucked.”

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“I used to think, what other job in the world is as good as being a detective?”

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“Why would you know?" "I wouldn't," I said. "I don't know anything about you.”

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“He wished to remain elusive even to himself. He was full of contradiction—penitential confessional eagerness and a secrecy that kept him opaque and in motion.”

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“He smiled. 'You think I'm a racist, like all cops.' He didn't seem to mind.”

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“He was suddenly uneasy, as if he'd just begun to think about me, the kind of person I might be, the way that I might think.”

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“What is it exactly that I'm allowed to do with you?" I asked. "Anything you want.”

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“I'll be here," I said. I shuddered, perhaps from a draft. "I know," he said. And he left.”

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“It's like trying to remember a dream," I said. "It's in me somewhere.”

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“I have not flirted with him. And besides, even if I had, which I hadn't, flirting is not risky. It only raises the possibility of risk.”

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“I wondered if I was afraid of him, after all.”

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“How you doing?" he asked. "How's everything?" "Fine, thank you," I said, turning my bracelet on my wrist. I felt shy, and it made me uncomfortable. "You always say that," he said. "That's what I'm supposed to say.”

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“I don't care what you do," Malloy said to me, "you can do anything you want, but if you ever tell anyone I eat frozen diet dinners, I'll kill you.”

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“Most people think they're smarter than me," said Rodriguez. He winked at me. "And that's what gives me the edge.”

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