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We Are Somnambulists

Published Friday, October 27, 2006

Emily comes on a cloudless day, and her heart clenches on the stale-air plane with the vastness of it, and only a little panic. Flying above the ocean can only compare with swimming far down below it, and she has only ever been level with the sea. I come on the same day, but I’ve got a different view. I have already gone scuba diving; my heart will never seize the same way.

At the hotel we become four, and sleep is assigned to us by a woman named Maria who appears like a collective vision out of our dreams. Where we are from, it is still dark; people are still fidgeting and fucking...

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