LEGENDARY REALITY (2017) by Jon Rafman
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One day I’m sitting at Ben’s Deli when his voice comes over the loudspeakers,
sewing together everything that I observe. Whatever the music touches gets
embedded in an immense tapestry. And he is in it––a figure framed by the city.
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Late at night, when I look out at the buildings, I see a face in every window looking
back at me. When I turn away, I wonder how many go back to their desks and write
this down.
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I have not seen him in years now, but his words are in my blood and veins. They rise
up in me and fuse together the horizontal and th
...e vertical.
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A warm feeling washes over me. I can make out the blurry outline of my glass
chamber. Am I waking up, or going to sleep?
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My memories break like a mirror into a thousand fragments. The line between
inside and outside melts away. Images begin to seep in.
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I hear his voice now, calling out to me from the tower down the track. It summons
me down the passageway, which I did not take… towards the pShow more