“It wasn’t that I wanted to be thinner; I didn’t want a body at all.”
In which the Magpie tells Hillary: You can go home again.
Novels are also mirror rooms, in a way; we read them “to see our reflections transformed, to wear another’s face.”
“As my feelings for R. grow, I find excuses to touch him, to mark him as my own.”
Wherein a question is posed: Is the Magpie a locksmith?
Derek Jarman’s eighties disco footage; Laurie Anderson’s dog.
“My dream of remission includes what I’ll wear when I’m able to be out and about again.”
“We eat meat and tell ourselves these bodies are just burger, ham, filets.”