Elisa Gabbert
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The Unreality of Memory: And Other Essays
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2020
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The Word Pretty
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2018
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The Self Unstable
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2013
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The French Exit
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2010
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L'Heure Bleue, or the Judy Poems
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2016
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That Tiny Insane Voluptuousness
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2008
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Thanks for Sending the Engine
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2007
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The Kind of Beauty That Has Nowhere to Go
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2013
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Draft: the Journal of Process: Issue Five
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The Unreality of Memory: Essays
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“The nuances of the terminology reflect degrees of stigma, but they influence stigma too - the names we give to people's discomfort affect how uncomfortable those people make us.”
― The Unreality of Memory: Essays
― The Unreality of Memory: Essays
“Often, when something bad happens, I have a strange, instinctual desire for things to get even worse—I think of a terrible outcome and then wish for it. I recognize the pattern, but I don’t understand it. It’s as though my mind is running simulations and can’t help but prefer the most dramatic option—as though, in that eventuality, I could enjoy it from the outside.”
― The Unreality of Memory: And Other Essays
― The Unreality of Memory: And Other Essays
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