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how the world becomes more detailed

In the Mood for Love by Wong Kar-wai (2001) E and I were eating breakfast in a café, half-listening to the couple at the table next to us over the scrape of cutlery and the low morning murmur of the room. I said it sounded like a first date. Something about the topics they were circling, the careful questions, the polite little disclosures, the way each answer seemed to offer just enough and no more. E agreed, but for different reasons. He hadn’t really heard the words. What he picked up on was the rhythm of the exchange, the pacing, the pauses, the way they were sitting: the distance…

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