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Cold Reading
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20 Cold Reading It’s really cold in here now, easily forty below something, and half the class is asleep. snow dazzles in the windows, makes a cake of each desk. It’s really cold in here now. I’ve been lecturing on the same poem for twenty six hours and half the class is asleep. I want them to get it. I start to talk about death again and it’s really cold in here now. One student has frozen solid, her hair snapping off in the wind and half the class is asleep. “see that” I say, “Lisa gets it.” But it’s so cold in here now half the class are white dunes shifting to the sea. ...