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— Ben Lerner"I've been building a fiction in part around the Marfa poem since my brief residency there, which has kept it from receding into the past."
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I don't think "I'm going to publish this as fiction" but I think "I'm going to tell this story to a friend" and then I start telling the story in my mind as the experience transpires as a way of pretending it's already happened.
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