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He Changed His Mind and the Room Did Not Know What to Do
In April a man in the Thursday group at the county library said that he had thought about what we discussed in March, and that he now believed the opposite of what he had argued for two hours. He s…
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The Wire Transfer My Mother Cannot Read
The receipt is a thermal-paper slip about the length of my hand, and by the time it reaches my mother in Lamjung the ink has already started to fade. She keeps them in a biscuit tin anyway. Nine ye…
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Twenty-Two Percent on a Coffee Nobody Carried Anywhere
The screen swivelled toward me and offered 18, 22 and 25 percent. The transaction was one coffee, in a paper cup, which I had watched a machine make and a person hand across a counter eighteen inch…
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The Sentence Scored Full Marks and Meant Nothing At All
The sentence was: this source may be biased, so it is important to consider other perspectives. It appeared, with minor variations, in nine of the thirty-one papers I marked that week, and under th…
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45
I Saw It at Eleven and It Is Not Good and It Is Mine
There is a film I have seen, conservatively, forty times. It came out when I was eleven and I saw it first in a second-run theater in a midwestern town that does not have one any more. It has a plo…
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The County Mows in July and That Is the Whole Story
County Road 12, west side, between the culvert and the section line: on 28 June I counted blooming stems in ten one-metre quadrats and got a mean of 41, dominated by common milkweed, bergamot and t…
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My Mother's Account of the Crossing Changed and I Do Not Think She Lied
My mother crossed in the winter of 1959, aged eleven, in a group that left from a village she has named the same way every time. Everything else about her account has moved.
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He Built the Best Version of Her Argument and She Said That's Not Why
A man in my Thursday group at the county library once spent eleven minutes constructing the strongest possible case for a position he does not hold. It was a good case. It was better organised than…
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The Fish Is Sold by the Basket and Bought by the Kilo
At the landing centre the auction is by basket. A boat comes in, the catch goes into standard baskets, and the bidding is per basket, called fast, settled in cash before the ice runs down. Nobody w…
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The Cooperative Lends Against a Field It Will Never Take
The loan officer in Besisahar showed me a ledger of forty-one outstanding agricultural loans, of which he expected to recover perhaps thirty-five. On the remaining six, the security was land. He ha…
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