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90.9 :: ‘orange juice and other stories’ by timothy willis sanders

‘orange juice and other stories’ by timothy willis sanders // publishing genius, 2012

90.9

seems like it took me a good ‘2 yrs’ to read this book

seems like some copies were made, then there were no copies, then more ‘came about’

seems good that this happened eg ‘more came about’

without that happening, what would have been?

what would i have thought about?

idk

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go go go go go

get some ‘oranje juice’

bill is like pouring him a glass

things are happening, he talks to jeannie, etc. etc.

there’s no ‘explaining’ of emotions, yeah

there are very little ‘transitions,’ yeah

paragraphs just happen & we’re tehre

it’s all ‘immediate’

small oranje juice moments make us thing abt important life things

abt the way ppl ‘relate’

abt the way ppl ‘talk’

abt the way things are ‘communicated’

w/o words

tws takes those ‘moments’

and we, yes we, must ‘interpret’ them

none of this ‘explanatory’ #QS BS

no ‘4,000 word’ sentences

we get the action w/ none of the emotion, thank you thank you

b/c we can tell what those emotions ‘will be’

we’re hanging just waiting

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i will talk about ‘cat stuff’ & GTOs

i’ve been with these stoners, and you have too

let’s go tws do it do it bring the stoners around

and the ‘anticipation’ and the ‘guessing’ abt the intentions of others this is the life we lead,

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rlly ‘real’ moments

to the point of ‘mundane’

but this is the way we ‘live’

we pass by skunk mailboxes

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idk the only thing i w

i w that the characters seemed ‘really’ different

seem like all the characters could be the ‘same’ in one long novel

you see thse are differnet stories

the only ‘different’ characters—- ‘r kelly’ ppl, the ‘cat stuff’ characters

evryone else fades together

oh this is awful i just read it once, i’m sorry, let’s try this again vry soon in the future, i will understand ‘nuance’ better i promise, i will be more careful on my lunch ‘break’ pls i promise

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don’t forget this ‘you have a crush on Kellz’ story

it’s amazing

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tws knows how to take the brands and things that are life

and take them as ‘shorthand’

we know what it’s like in the mall

we don’t know what it’s like to be r kelly and never have been r kelly

aaliyah aaliyah

r kelly is lonelier than haley joel osment

dan vs. dan-in-chicago

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go tws go

pls write some more

go tws go

this is an ‘important’ book in the evolve of alt lit

this is an ‘important’ book to know abt the world circa a few yrs ago

this is an ‘important’ book to know how to function w/ brands, they are concrete and dangerous and our never-ending pasta bowls of desire are asking for more tws

this is an ‘important’ book on how to not communicate in relationships

thank you tws here’s to you

and whatevv comes nxt