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for a long time I had heard about the lake of Tung-t'ing

now I am actually climbing the Yo-yang tower ..

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"we all got fat, after that, .. after my father left, after my father was forcibly ejected from the house.."

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we're driving down through france and we're, we're overwhelmed - by the size - the size of the forest, which goes on forever, the fields, the prairies, as they are, the prairies and the fields and the rivers - it's the Loire; it's the Rhone - you go along, then suddenly cross such and such a river: it's a massive body of water - a body, far from the sea, of water flowing - it overwhelms you - you seem to hear ..

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I'm lying in bed waiting for you to wake up. what are you doing, you say. just lying here, I say..

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you're at King's. you're sitting by the water cooler. S is reading a thick hardback book. the air conditioner hums..

a photograph showed two geologists standing in wax slickers, who stayed at the white hotel in the glen. everything drenched, slick, shiny at close quarters, at arms length dispersing into the mist..

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14 15 16you're watching an old man who reminds you of somebody, skateboarding. you're interrupted. but you continue to watch that old man, who reminds you more and more of somebody - more and more until you can anticipate this old man appearing in your sleep as an unknown figure, intensely recalling someone .. 17 18 19

the flight of a bee eater over these feathery trees, maybe some kind of larch, dangling with nests, is immediately recognisable: the shape of wings sloping back, the fast fluttering and twisting flight - as distinctive in its way as the nightjar, you think, looking up from reading Meillasoux, as *any* flight, or *any* movement, you think -

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the habitus of any bird or animal or plant, or fungus, acquired at once by the most casual and the most intense prolonged and regular contact and observation - so it becomes really an extension, a region of the imagination, which the flying bird can instantly discharge - so the networks of our feeling are suddenly flooded with activity, bringing us back from a state close to ..

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Coming from town on Ali Hassan Mwinyi towards Bagamoyo, go through the Haile Selassie traffic light and turn left at the next corner

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what is it like to come back from somewhere to find your own life irredeemably alien?

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that's what I call a writer

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[a researcher] yesterday revealed the perforation of the permafrost layer underneath the arctic ocean: the permafrost layer is now perforated, [the researcher] said, after months and years tracking the surface of the arctic sea looking for definitive signs of these perforations, which scientists have long suspected and theorised, it [was] with a mixture of relief and horror that members of the expedition .. day before yesterday encountered such methane fountains literally pouring in columns of bubbles up through the arctic sea.. obviously from the ocean floor [the researcher continues]: below the sediments of the sea floor in the arctic ocean lies a layer of permafrost through which, once perforated, methane from the decay of ancient biomass now pours, twenty times more damaging..

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there her father lived, grinding his own lenses, along with a network of other amateur astronomers, who passed their observations from one to another, often to find the others had already observed what they had just seen..

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the person faces you:

their face is initially clear, skin translucent, pale

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sitting by the stove in S London looking out the window at the leaves of the sycamore the day after Barack Obama has been elected president of the United States..

from beyond the Chein-ko pass, news suddenly reaches us of the recovery of Chi-pei

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reading the first autumn meditation of du fu in november 2008 while watching time lapse video of fall 04 and thinking about the end of the world

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you're sitting in the kitchen. you're alone in the house. you're dying.

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you're sitting in the dental institute at king's college hospital waiting to see Mr Stenhouse

Dr Khan is sticking a needle in your neck

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