![]() Two reviews that appeared at the time of the trilogy’s publication suggest that I am not alone. I did not, any longer, want to persuade anyone of anything.” In Outline, the novel’s narrator Faye remarks, “What I knew personally to be true had come to seem unrelated to the process of persuading others. More: I want, somehow, to let go of the need to advise or direct-in general and in relation to the stories that I hear. ![]() My craving takes, however, a very particular form: it wants to re-create conversations as they are represented in Rachel Cusk’s trilogy: Outline (2014), Transit (2017), and Kudos (2018). That is, I dream of hearing stories and then writing them down. Presumably most if not all of the planet’s extroverts, and many of its introverts, are sick of talking at screens small and large we long to engage, face-to-face, with friends and strangers. ![]() First on my list: in-person conversation. ![]() After my second vaccination in 2021, dreams of life after COVID-19 began to find a foothold. ![]()
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