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> Happy Birthday. Your thirteenth is important. Maybe your first really public day. Your thirteenth is the chance for people to recognize that important things are happening to you. Things have been happening to you for the past half year.
> You have seven hairs in your left armpit now. Twelve in your right. Hard dangerous spirals of brittle black hair. Crunchy, animal hair. There are now more of the hard curled hairs around your privates than you can count without losing track.
>Other things. Your voice is rich and scratchy and moves between octaves without any warning. Your face has begun to get shiny when you don’t wash it. And two weeks of a deep and frightening ache this past spring left you with something dropped down from inside:
> your sack is now full and vulnerable, a commodity to be protected. Hefted and strapped in tight supporters that stripe your buttocks red. You have grown into a new fragility.
Why am I reading this?

>> No.2581680

I wonder that myself. You obviously can't understand Wallace's genius.

>> No.2581679
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2581679

mfw

>> No.2581685

reminds me of this
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vrDqS7zSuo0

>> No.2581687
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2581687

You have seven hairs in your left armpit now. Twelve in your right
is this even possible?

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>>2581680
Holy smokes batman, it's another uncultured faggot.

>> No.2581692

>>2581676

Wallace has better stuff. You can quote shitty work from a number of great authors.

>> No.2581693

>basing a piece of writing on a very small excerpt from it and ignoring its context in the following text

>> No.2581694

>>2581692
this was the very first thing I laid my eyes on.

>> No.2581699
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2581699

THIRTEEN SPINS AROUND THE SUN,

THE PINNACLE STATE OF YOUR YOUTH.

TWENTYFOUR OF THE FOURTH IN ONETHOUSAND NINEHUNDRED NINETYEIGHT.

SIX FOR NINE.

IT IS YOUR BIRTHDAY,

RyRy ON THE RYE.

ZERO.

ONE.

FIVE.

TWENTYFIVE.

ONEHUNDRED TWENTYFIVE.

SIXHUNDRED TWENTYFIVE.

SIX TO FIVE EQUALS THIRTEEN

SPINS AROUND THE SUN.

IT IS YOUR BIRTHDAY.

RyRy ON THE RYE.

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>>2581690

>2012
>calling out others for being uncultured in reference to a single subjective opinion on an anonymous imageboard.

>> No.2581700

i thought that story was great. shrug.

>> No.2581702

>>2581699
who wrote that?

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>>2581699
oh god my sides

>> No.2581708

>>2581694

a few personal favorites:

“And Lo, for the Earth was empty of Form, and void. And Darkness was all over the Face of the Deep. And We said: 'Look at that fucker Dance.”

"almost nothing important that ever happens to you happens because you engineer it. Destiny has no beeper; destiny always leans trenchcoated out of an alley with some sort of 'psst' that you usually can't even hear because you're in such a rush to or from something important you've tried to engineer. ”

"That everyone is identical in their secret unspoken belief that way deep down they are different from everyone else. That this isn't necessarily perverse."

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>>2581699
> SIX TO FIVE EQUALS THIRTEEN

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>>2581699

If this isn't a joke, it's the worst thing i've ever read. And perversely the best.

>> No.2581716

>>2581708
> “There are these two young fish swimming along and they happen to meet an older fish swimming the other way, who nods at them and says "Morning, boys. How's the water?" And the two young fish swim on for a bit, and then eventually one of them looks over at the other and goes "What the hell is water?”
this one is actually good.

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>>2581699
Your tumblr makes my cursor feel funny.

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>>2581699
thee fuck is going on!

>> No.2581721
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2581721

“CERTAIN” IS A RELATIVELY “VAGUE” WORD.

“UNCERTAIN” IS A WORD MORE “PRECISE” THAN “CERTAIN”.

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>>2581718
Mostly queasy.

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>>2581722
>>2581721
>>2581719

I hope i'm being trolled.

>> No.2581732

2deep4u

>> No.2581734

>>2581729
http://thevagabondisland.tumblr.com/

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>>2581734


MY SIDES

>> No.2582062

yeah, i didn't much like that story either.

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>>2581734
Call the police