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Anne Carson · Gloves on!

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Your 10-digit subscription number is above your name on the address slip and begins with 400. If you subscribed via the website, you can enter the order number from your subscription confirmation email in place of your subscription number. More search Options Browse by Subject S o,​ your life. There it is before you – possibly a road, a ribbon, a dotted line, a map – let’s say you’re 25, then you make some decisions, do things, have setbacks, have triumphs, become someone, a bus driver, a professor of Indo-European linguistics, a pirate, a cosmetologist, years pass, maybe in a family maybe not, maybe happy maybe not, then one day you wake up and you’re seventy. Looking ahead you see a black doorway. You begin to notice the black doorway is always there, at the edge, whether you look at it or not. Most moments contain it, most moments have a sort of sediment of black doorway at the bottom of the glass. You wonder if other people are seeing it too. You ask them. They say no.

Vol. 46 No. 16 · 15 August 2024 Gloves on! Anne Carson Share on Bluesky Share on Facebook Share Email Print 1476 words S o, ​ your life . There it is before you - possibly a road, a ribbon, a dotted line, a map - let's say you're 25, then you make some decisions, do things, have setbacks, have triumphs, become someone, a bus driver, a professor of Indo-European linguistics, a pirate, a cosmetologist, years pass, maybe in a family maybe not, maybe happy maybe not, then one day you wake up and you're seventy. Looking ahead you see a black doorway. You begin to notice the black doorway is a

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