the start of dinner conversation

“Did you bring your toolbox?”- she asked. “No. Not this time.”- that was my response. “So you don’t plan on picking me apart this evening?”- her next question. “Listen, if I need a sharp instrument I will just borrow one of yours.”

the start of dinner conversation

“Did you bring your toolbox?”- she asked. “No. Not this time.”- that was my response. “So you don’t plan on picking me apart this evening?”- her next question. “Listen, if I need a sharp instrument I will just borrow one of yours.”

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He knows the robust calls from the small bodies of cicadas, but he wants conversation -- the language of damsel flies who need something to translate their breath the way he uses the ocarina to give himself a voice, something to leap with over the walls of this place.

(Michael Ondaatje)

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