The Weight of Water
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What about Yeats?
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The celebration
of the human imagination.

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- The magician.
- Melancholy.

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It's all melancholy.
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"The room swinging
with emptiness

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like an unswung bell."
Valentin Iremonger.

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I think
the really great ones

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use words in such a way
you can never take them back.

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Yeah, they do.
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"To separate from life...
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from tantalizing mysteries
and salt spray...

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from the grave
gypsy eyes...

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and the sacred, poignant flesh
of long-limbed dancers,

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unsullied,
but not for long."

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She's memorized you,
Thomas.

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I stole "poignant flesh"
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from Rich.
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- I don't remember saying that.
- You were drunk.

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I don't think I'd ever
use that word.

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That's so like you.
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You probably read more
than anybody I've ever met.

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But you always pretend
you'd rather be drinking beer

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- At a Red Sox game.
- Depends on who's pitching.

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How did Wagner know
the men would be gone?

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Sorry. Still thinking
about the murders.

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But Louis Wagner...
the man they hanged...

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how did he know
the women would be alone?

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He's got a 12-mile row
back to shore,

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why take time
to drink tea?

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And why cover one woman's face
and not the other's?

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Axe murderers don't tend to have
the most razor- sharp intellects.

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Maybe her eyes were open.
It was the sight of them,

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the accusation.
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He couldn't stand to have her
looking at him.

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So it was an act
of passion.

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But using an axe
requires intimacy.


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