Then I heard the door close and they were gone. I got dressed and went downstairs. The flesh about my body felt soft and relaxed like an experiment in functional background.

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The man who owned the bookstore was not magic. He was not a three-legged crow on the dandelion side of the mountain.

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He had a kitchen in the back of the store and he brewed cups of thick Turkish coffee in a copper pan. I drank coffee and read old books and waited for the year to end.  He had a small room above the kitchen.

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There was nothing else I could do for my body was like birds sitting on a telephone wire strung out down the world, clouds tossing the wires carefully.

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Once resumed, the pages of the book began to speed up and turn faster and faster until they were spinning like wheels in the sea.

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All passages taken from Trout Fishing in America (“Sea, Sea Rider”) by Richard Brautigan.