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The people in this house, i felt, and i included myself, were like characters each from a different grim and gruesome fairy tale. none of us was in the same story. we were all grotesques, and self-riveted, but in separate narratives, and so our interactions seemed weird and richly meaningless, like the characters in a tennessee williams play, with their bursting unimportant, but spell-bindingly mad speeches.

-Lorrie Moore

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The People In This House, I Felt,

Lorrie Moore

The people in this house, i felt, and i included myself, were like characters each from a different grim and gruesome fairy tale. none of us was in the same story. we were all grotesques, and self-riveted, but in separate narratives, and so our interactions seemed weird and richly meaningless, like the characters in a tennessee williams play, with their bursting unimportant, but spell-bindingly mad speeches.

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