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Two voices in a dream the other night:

One: My cousin's wife is so sad since he died.

Two: Why? He was only a cousin.


Analogous to, maybe influenced by, that sublime Mr. Show companions sketch.

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48. Short Talks
49. One Hundred Poems from the Japanese, Rexroth
50. Nobody Move

The first a reread, the first two the sorts of books you reach for only if you're trying to get back into reading books when you've set an annual quota and are months behind. The third was very fun, and you can feel Johnson having that fun too while making it for you. I get the impression he read No Country for Old Men and thought, we're allowed to do that? Neat! But who knows.

Not that Short Talks isn't terrific, but most of them are in Plainwater, a tiny section in Plainwater.