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I Stand On The Corner, Pretending I Am A Tree.

Foreignness Is All Around. Only In The Heart Of The Heart Of The Country, Namely The Heart Of The United States, Can You Avoid Such A Thing. In The Center Of An Empire, You Can Think Of Your Experience As Universal. Outside The Empire Or On The Fringes Of The Empire, You Cannot.

Love Was Like A Steamroller. There Was No Avoiding It; It Went Over You And You Came Out Flat.

The Past Is A Closed Door.

They Spent The First Three Years Of School Getting You To Pretend Stuff And Then The Rest Of It Marking You Down If You Did The Same Thing.