Sometimes, I think I know what my grandparents were listeni… - Alexander Chee

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Sometimes, I think I know what my grandparents were listening for. Sound waves don't ever go away. Not one sound goes away. The wave simply expands, infinitely. The sound remains. Imagine a cosine arc the size of Jupiter, and that might be the size of the wave of the last thing Peter ever said. I'd need an ear the size of another solar system to hear him again.

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Alexander Chee (born August 21, 1967) is an American fiction writer, poet, journalist and reviewer.

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