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We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives.

Bit by bit . . . she had claimed herself. Freeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed self was another.

When there is pain, there are no words. All pain is the same.

The ability of writers to imagine what is not the self, to familiarize the strange and mystify the familiar, is the test of their power.