Everything is Personal

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The Body Electric

The Body Electric

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Dec 27, 2024
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Every so often, you crack out of the language invented by other people. I mean, language itself. You crack out of the language that has given you the means to say, wait a minute, that’s not who I am. Every life, in a comic sense, is the Hitchcock movie North By Northwest, in which Roger Thornhill, a man in the wrong place at the wrong time, is mistaken …

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