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I could stay at home and I’d go out. There’d be a group of people in one setting or another who knew each other but gradually I began to feel withdrawn from them anyway.

It was easier to remember what had been said and I’d feel satisfied after going somewhere.

Other people seemed completely internal which I noticed when I’d observed a man for some time and saw that he’d say something about himself and I thought that he should be that entirely and that other people don’t go into a sort of public world.

I wanted to be wholly transparent so that I would tell people details of my activities whether I was casual or angry.

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I feel that the people I see are all right—in the sense of not getting very old—as I get out of the area where there are shops, a few houses.

I don’t see them walk or move a great deal; and they wear good clothes or everyday clothes.

At the time a man doing construction work in the street comes in that slow delayed way; he is in a sort of public world, working for awhile. Then not working for periods of time possibly.

From Considering how exaggerated music is Leslie Scalapino (North Point Press, 1982)