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I Cannot Make My Son Purer Than This Sickening World

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I Cannot Make My Son Purer Than This Sickening World
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“Everything” by Ingeborg Bachmann, translated by Philip Boehm and Tess Lewis When we sit down to eat like two people turned to stone or when we meet at the door to the apartment in the evening because we both thought to lock it at the same time, I feel our grief stretching like a bow […] The post I Cannot Make My Son Purer Than This Sickening World appeared first on Electric Literature.

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