Fakisha Fabre

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Between Friends & Lovers by Shirlene Obuobi

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and relish the irony that existing in your unaltered self is considered a statement.

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“Sometimes he wakes so far from himself that he can窶冲 even remember who he is. 窶弩here am I?窶� he asks, desperate, and then, 窶弩ho am I? Who am I?窶�
And then he hears, so close to his ear that it is as if the voice is originating inside his own head, Willem窶冱 whispered incantation. 窶弸ou窶决e Jude St. Francis. You are my oldest, dearest friend. You窶决e the son of Harold Stein and Julia Altman. You窶决e the friend of Malcolm Irvine, of Jean-Baptiste Marion, of Richard Goldfarb, of Andy Contractor, of Lucien Voigt, of Citizen van Straaten, of Rhodes Arrowsmith, of Elijah Kozma, of Phaedra de los Santos, of the Henry Youngs.
窶弸ou窶决e a New Yorker. You live in SoHo. You volunteer for an arts organization; you volunteer for a food kitchen.
窶弸ou窶决e a swimmer. You窶决e a baker. You窶决e a cook. You窶决e a reader. You have a beautiful voice, though you never sing anymore. You窶决e an excellent pianist. You窶决e an art collector. You write me lovely messages when I窶冦 away. You窶决e patient. You窶决e generous. You窶决e the best listener I know. You窶决e the smartest person I know, in every way. You窶决e the bravest person I know, in every way.
窶弸ou窶决e a lawyer. You窶决e the chair of the litigation department at Rosen Pritchard and Klein. You love your job; you work hard at it.
窶弸ou窶决e a mathematician. You窶决e a logician. You窶况e tried to teach me, again and again.
窶弸ou were treated horribly. You came out on the other end. You were always you.”
― Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life

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“The axiom of equality states that x always equals x: it assumes that if you have a conceptual thing named x, that it must always be equivalent to itself, that it has a uniqueness about it, that it is in possession of something so irreducible that we must assume it is absolutely, unchangeably equivalent to itself for all time, that its very elementalness can never be altered. But it is impossible to prove. Always, absolutes, nevers: these are the words, as much as numbers, that make up the world of mathematics. Not everyone liked the axiom of equality窶凪泥r. Li had once called it coy and twee, a fan dance of an axiom窶凪澱ut he had always appreciated how elusive it was, how the beauty of the equation itself would always be frustrated by the attempts to prove it. It was the kind of axiom that could drive you mad, that could consume you, that could easily become an entire life.

But now he knows for certain how true the axiom is, because he himself窶凪塗is very life窶凪塗as proven it. The person I was will always be the person I am, he realizes. The context may have changed: he may be in this apartment, and he may have a job that he enjoys and that pays him well, and he may have parents and friends he loves. He may be respected; in court, he may even be feared. But fundamentally, he is the same person, a person who inspires disgust, a person meant to be hated.”
― Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life

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