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72 Little Dissertation on the Subject/Object (fragment) Gail Wronsky v. Dinner with the Argentine Poet however, convinced her that disappearance as a metaphor was morally insupportable. She would have to try to learn another talent. She would have to try to learn to be, again. To be in the body, not in the slant of its shade; to be in the eyes and not in some huge room behind them; conspiring. To leave behind her death mask of unrivaled beauty, the transparencies that got her through the day —what would be left? The imperfection of her virtues, the confusion of the undraped corpse, eyes which deny the I-I, the doubleness of misperception. Here’s to nothing that is not inmediately knowable as love or art, she said, toasting the woman from Argentina. Here’s to watermelon, said the woman, this rich, red fruit split open on the table between us, having lived for nothing ever but to reproduce itself. ...

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