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Quite a Crowd vii Overture 1 1. Yes and No 18 2. Learning to Swim 68 3. Andante Vivace 75 4. Again and Again 99 5. Keep Everything in Sight at the Same Time 159 6. Desire without Desires 161 7. Becoming Becoming 205 8. Refusing Beauty; or, The Bruise 242 9. An Ethics of Affection 256 Cadenza 296 Notes 301 Works Cited 315 Index 333 C o n t e n t s A special word for careless is caress. —Gertrude Stein ...

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