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A Necessary Waist: Plath Grows Thinner Reading Stein
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A Necessary Waist: Plath Grows Thinner Reading Stein . . . what is the current that presents a long line and a necessary waist Gertrude Stein 1. The outside pressing in like a red lake, causing a narrowing of her. Will there be room for everything/everyone inside? 2. Because also inside her: a rope and a map: rope of intestines, marking the equator of her like the belt of a shirtwaist dress, map of her mother’s face, every line and malignant flap of skin. 3. A recording like a tapeworm: do not return to this and this is everything, everything you don’t want to be. 56 BeattyPGS:Layout 1 2/5/08 8:28 PM Page 56 ...