How We Are Hungry (2007)
“It went like this:“You are a lucky one, Tom, to have Erin and others like Erin.” The voice of the nickly reflection of the moon was not as deep as you might expect. It was a singer’s voice, though, a tenor, one that loved itself without reservation.“Thank you,” I said. “I feel blessed.”“I often think of coming down to live among you, to make a big mess of it all,” he said. “It always looks so messy, and I think I might like that.”“It is messy, I guess.”“It looks awfully messy. It looks almost i...mpossible to survive, to tell you the truth. The pain of it all.”“It’s not all that painful,” I said.“But Tom,” it said, “the swinging of your pendulums! Everyone’s pendulums swinging, to and fro, and always you’re getting hit by someone else’s swinging pendulum. You’re minding your business, but someone else’s pendulum is swinging around, and pow! you get it in the head.”“That happens, yes.”“I saw you and Erin by the shed.”“Oh.”“I was there.”“That makes sense.MoreLess
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