How Do You Do, Dolores?
Yoel Hoffman
1995
123
I have to hide the secrets that I learn from the alley cats.
First. That the Creation was far quieter than we assume. Second. The opposite reversal of things. The stripes in the lens. The thoughts in the empty spaces.
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