Quotes by Ben Lerner, Leaving the Atocha Station

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I believe she imbued my body thus, finding every touch enhanced by ambiguity of intention, as if it too required transla — Ben Lerner, Leaving the Atocha Station
I formed several possible stories out of her speech, formed them at once, so it was less like I failed to understand tha — Ben Lerner, Leaving the Atocha Station
I had the endless day, months and months of endless days, and yet my return date bounded this sense of boundlessness, ke — Ben Lerner, Leaving the Atocha Station
I tended to find lines of poetry beautiful only when I encountered them quoted in prose, in the essays my professors had — Ben Lerner, Leaving the Atocha Station
I could displace the mystery of my speech onto writing, the latter perhaps recharging the former — Ben Lerner, Leaving the Atocha Station
My experience of my body was her experience once removed, which meant my body was dissolved, and that’s all I’d ever rea — Ben Lerner, Leaving the Atocha Station