she thought that sometimes you walk right into language as though it’s a chair out of place in a dark room: a word, an expression you live with all y… - Dale Peck

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she thought that sometimes you walk right into language as though it’s a chair out of place in a dark room: a word, an expression you live with all your life can become suddenly, completely unfamiliar. That night Beatrice stumbled over death, but it was dark, and she was tired, and she believed that she had stumbled across love.