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'—when—a language becomes extinct—disappears—turns into trash which nobody can recycle—enters a pause mode—or better put—it becomes an eternal pause—& this—crystallised in my mind when—I thought about—philosophers with their chopsticks never-endingly aloft, also on pause—of the hare meat-eating sailors on their Arctic odyssey. And with that, it wasn’t long before a feeling of spiritual incompleteness came over me.'
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‘Cities that experience very hot summers & very cold winters seem to me like bags of frozen food—frozen & defrosted over & over again—you need only tear open the plastic to see how inedible the contents have become. And that’s precisely what I think my walks amounted to—a way of wearing down the outermost layer of the pavements, the skin, eventually to have it rip open of its own accord—For me, New York City’
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‘I cook a steak for her—acceptable—she wolfs it down before asking for a glass of milk—I pull up a stool and sit next to her—when she finishes eating—we sit in silence watching the birds migrate across the screen, and she says: See, these birds don’t get it either. Don’t get what? I say. They don’t get why they migrate, she says, but they do it all the same, and then she says that what she wants to do is leave, — ’
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‘—by the act of eating—we made something sacred disappear forever—breeze carried hints of eucalyptus—in Uruguay he—been a—baker—he said—before coming out with certain things I found unsettling—such as: ‘Life is a layer of soil no bigger than a dirty napkin’ and ‘God is a dishwashing machine—big dishwashing machine’ then—in Argentina—worked as a pastry chef—that ‘intelligence is the final barrier to be demolished’’
— Feb 14, 2026 05:04PM
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My favourite Mallo!
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Matthew Ted wrote: "My favourite Mallo!"So pleased to hear that . Mallo ! : ) I like him so very much, haha , and if I don't end up giving this one a full five star rating, well, it just wouldn't make sense !
