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Some mornings... i sit at the kitchen table shaking salt into the hairs on my arm, and a feeling shoves up in me: it's finished. everything went past without me.
-Jennifer Egan
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Some Mornings... I Sit At The Kitchen

Jennifer Egan
Some mornings... i sit at the kitchen table shaking salt into the hairs on my arm, and a feeling shoves up in me: it's finished. everything went past without me.
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My life is routine. i wake up early in the morning. i brush my teeth. i sit on the floor of the cell i do not go to breakfast. i stare at a gray cement wall. i keep my legs crossed my back straight my eyes forward. i take deep breaths in and out, in and out, and i try not to move. i sit for as long as i can i sit until everything hurts i sit until everything stops hurting i sit until i lose myself in the gray wall i sit until my mind becomes as blank as the gray wall. i sit and i stare and i breathe. i sit and i stare. i breathe.
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I take pens and i write on the inside of my arm. when i'm with people and somebody says a really fascinating anecdote, or fact, or phrase, i'll write it on the inside of my arm. at the end of the day, i'll take the very best things that are on my arm and i'll copy them into a notebook that i always carry and only when the weather is absolutely terrible will i really key the very best of that notebook into the computer. at that point, it's all sort of censored twice - only the best things go from the arm to the book and only the best things go from the book to the computer.
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Let’s suppose that rain washes out a picnic. who is feeling negative? the rain? or you? what’s causing the negative feeling? the rain or your reaction? when you bump your knee against a table, the table’s fine. it’s busy being what it was made to be – a table. the pain is in your knee, not in the table. the mystics keep trying to tell us that reality is all right. reality is not problematic. problems exist only in the human mind. we might add: in the stupid, sleeping human mind.
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If an optimist had his left arm chewed off by an alligator, he might say in a pleasant and hopeful voice, "well this isn't too bad, i don't have a left arm anymore but at least nobody will ever ask me if i'm left-handed or right-handed," but most of us would say something more along the lines of, "aaaaaa! my arm! my arm!"
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"do you know a cure for me?" why yes," he said, "i know a cure for everything. salt water." salt water?" i asked him. yes," he said, "in one way or the other. sweat, or tears, or the salt sea".
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