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Instantly I remembered everything I hated about him. But it was, in a way, comforting to know that he had not changed at all.
The emotional question became why Susy had rejected me. I was interested in that shift, from actively wanting to actively not wanting.
To me, it was clear proof of the existence of supersymmetry, the idea that every particle has a partner. She was mine.
Well, then, what's the plan now? You can't stay here forever.'
My plan was indeed to stay there forever.
My plan was indeed to stay there forever.
The sensation that had plagued me after graduating, of being on the outside of some mystery, peeking in, returned.
Tokyo was a place you could quite happily exist alone and be self-contained. It seemed to promise that it was better to be by yourself.
The sharp, superficial pain at being spoken to unkindly had obscured the deeper pain, which had not yet turned into something hard and heavy.
So there is a before and there is an after. That isn't made up. But it's just a passage of time, no big change that changes everything.
But you'd hope anyone would feel sympathy if they actually saw someone face to face, pleading for a chance.
But it is difficult to tell whether something is an oppurtunity or a trap when you are put on the spot.
The messages must be stuck somewhere in the tube of light underneath the ocean that connects London and New York.
Yes,' she said, her nod and smile so American and so misleading. 'You are not supposed to be here - you're supposed to be there.
Mizuko loved reading the dictionary. She liked it when there were multiple meanings for words and when opposite meanings could be contained.
It continues to impress me how fluently Americans, even immigrants like her, speak of their achievements.
Things which had at first felt like signs, if I analysed them for too long, ended up feeling like the movements of my own reflection in dark glass.
I asked to use the bathroom and sat, recovering, on the edge of a marble bath on a dais - the kind Greek husbands are slain in.
I had shelved expectations of another kiss; the intensity of not kissing now worked almost as well - the proximity and denial.
But I do not know the people I am crying for anymore. I don't let myself sympathise - I think it would be wrong.
Yeah!' I said again, widening my eyes and nodding slowly but emphatically to show that she had seen into my own symmetrical soul.
It was to do with the glazed look that always comes over me when faced with somebody who has offended or hurt me and yet whose approval I want.
Waking in the morning, I had to remember grief all over again. It was sunny, a white winter sun, and that made me sad.