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calle roque
He looks up at the large clock on the wall. “Is that the time?” he may or may not be saying out loud.
He returns to copying the following from a book:
When the mind regards its own self and its power of activity, it feels pleasure, and the more so the more distinctly it imagines itself and its power of activity.
Copying things helps one remember. Now he looks around. White cube white walls white ceiling white light. White carpet, white doorway, white corridor leading to another white corridor. Walk it and soon you're Kelvin in a Mosfilm space station. The corridor elongates, spiraling into the small back vanishing that hovers in the center of the image.
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The association with "Solaris" probably turns on the possibility of a midget. Sometimes there is one. He wears a Kangol hat backward and stops as you approach to stare as you pass.
He looks up at the large clock on the wall. “Is that the time?” he may or may not be saying out loud.
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
-kamau brathwaite
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