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"Sylvie wonders if her independence really serves her well. Ginny, in her helplessness, is completely lovable & she is not" — Torpor, #ChrisKraus 
"...the practitioners of the French new novel preferred descriptions of the phenomenal world over humanistic arcs of character & plot. It was as if reality could no longer be contained within a single story, so they devised new methods of bisecting it" — Torpor, #ChrisKraus
"In Thurman, history was a lot like hypothermia: a warm & loose embrace into a dreamy state that turns out to be inertia" — Torpor, #ChrisKraus
"Since she no longer believes in art, she's found it possible to become moderately successful in the art world. This is what it means to 'come of age': to find a cover story that fools everyone except yourself" — Torpor, #ChrisKraus
"We no longer have dark pasts. We have shiny resumés" — @mckenziewark
