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Stan Carey

Seems a good time to reread White Noise. I love DeLillo's gentle gear-shifts from the everyday to the transcendent

We watched Wilder climb backwards down the attic steps, which were higher than the steps elsewhere in the house. At dinner Denise kept getting up and walking in small stiff rapid strides to the toilet off the hall, a hand clapped to her mouth. We paused in odd moments of chewing or salt-sprinkling to hear her retch incompletely. Heinrich told her she was showing outdated symptoms. She gave him a slit-eyed look. It was a period of looks and glances, teeming interactions, part of the sensory array I ordinarily cherish. Heat, noise, lights, looks, words, gestures, personalities, appliances. A colloquial density that makes family life the one medium of sense knowledge in which an astonishment of heart is routinely contained. I watched the girls communicate in hooded looks. 'Aren't we eating a little early tonight?' Denise said.
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May 02, 2023, 10:09 AM·Public
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