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SPOILERS: I talk about Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go and Paul Schrader’s Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters. Personally, I think if you knew exactly what happened in both works you would still get basically the same value out of them, and the plots are pretty predictable from the start anyway. But if you want to go in totally blind, you shouldn’t read this. And if you haven’t read/seen either of them, this should still be perfectly legible to you. Lately I feel constantly like I’m losing something. I send a poorly worded text and think, I’ve fucked up—it’s over. My mother’s radiology tests come in over text. My grandparents buy their gravestones. My body dissolves into bug bites and strangers’ fingerprints and a crackling left shoulder joint. I wake up too late, go to bed too early, feel time slipping between my fingers. I reread Never Let Me Go and at the final few pages saliva collects in my mouth and my stomach twists as though I’m about to throw up. In Never Let Me Go, Kathy, Ruth

never let me go art, death, and memory Kai Jul 30, 2024 7 2 Share SPOILERS: I talk about Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go and Paul Schrader’s Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters . Personally, I think if you knew exactly what happened in both works you would still get basically the same value out of them, and the plots are pretty predictable from the start anyway. But if you want to go in totally blind, you shouldn’t read this. And if you haven’t read/seen either of them, this should still be perfectly legible to you. Lately I feel constantly like I’m losing something. I send a poorly worded text

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