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Where I'm Calling From: New and Selected Stories
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Raymond Carver
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Where I'm Calling From: New
I want to hide from it, that's what I want to do. I want to just close my eyes and let it pass by. Let it take the next man.
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Where I'm Calling From: New
We knew our days were numbered. We had fouled up our lives and we were getting ready for a shake-up.
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Raymond Carver
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Where I'm Calling From: New
I'm moving to Nevada. Either there or kill myself.
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Raymond Carver
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Where I'm Calling From: New
You see, this happened a few months ago, but it's still going on right now, and it ought to make us feel ashamed when we talk like we know what we're talking about when we talk about love.
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Raymond Carver
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Where I'm Calling From: New
Then I said something. I said, Suppose, just suppose, nothing had ever happened. Suppose this was for the first time. Just suppose. It doesn't hurt to suppose. Say none of the other had ever happened. You know what I mean? Then what? I said.
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Where I'm Calling From: New
I'm a heart surgeon, sure, but I'm just a mechanic. I go in and I fuck around and I fix things. Shit."
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Raymond Carver
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There was this funny thing of anything could happen now that we realized everything had.
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Raymond Carver
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Where I'm Calling From: New
Booze takes a lot of time and effort if you're going to do a good job with it.
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Where I'm Calling From: New
This is awful. I don't know what's going to happen to me or to anyone else in the world.
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Raymond Carver
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Where I'm Calling From: New
Honey, no offense, but sometimes I think I could shoot you and watch you kick.
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Raymond Carver
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Where I'm Calling From: New
But I can hardly sit still. I keep fidgeting, crossing one leg and then the other. I feel like I could throw off sparks, or break a window--maybe rearrange all the furniture.
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Where I'm Calling From: New
I've crossed some kind of invisible line. I feel as if I've come to a place I never thought I'd have to come to. And I don't know how I got here. It's a strange place. It's a place where a little harmless dreaming and then some sleepy, early-morning talk has led me into considerations of death and annihilation.
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