He gave up quickly trying to attune the experience to a lan… - Jim Harrison

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He gave up quickly trying to attune the experience to a language construct, as if life were an especially filthy mirror and speechless love cleansed this mirror and made life not only bearable but something lived with eagerness, energy, an expectancy whose pleasure didn’t depend on fatality.

Jim Harrison

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