"So long everything!" he shouted, then he ran next door to Margot's house.
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"I'm moving," he said.
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"Where?" asked Margot.
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"Two weeks away," said Mitchell.
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"Where is that?" asked Margot.
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"It's everywhere I will be after I walk for two weeks," said Mitchell, "I have lived in the same place for a long time, it is time for me to go some place else."
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"No." said Margot, "You have only lived next door for fifteen years."
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"Sixteen," said Mitchell.
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"Fifteen...sixteen, what's the difference?" said Margot, "I want you to stay next door forever."
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"I can't," said Mitchell, " I do not want to go wake up in the same old bed and eat breakfast in the same old kitchen. Every room in my house is the same old room, because I have lived there too long. ¡°
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You turn on a spindle. You¡¯re so much looser now but you¡¯re not explaining how you gained such new repose. I touch the clasp of your locket, with its picture held, some secret you wouldn¡¯t tell but let it choke your neck. So we imagine a darkness where all shapes divide, solids changing into light, with a burst of heat so bright. Well fine, don¡¯t you do what I want you to. Don¡¯t degrade yourself the way that I do cause you don¡¯t depend upon all the shit that I use to make my moods improve.
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"And you look at me and think, same old face, same old tail, same old scale, same old walk, same old talk, same old Margot,"
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"No," said Mitchell, "I like your face, tail, scale, walk, and talk.¡±
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¡±I like you."
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"I like you too," said Mitchell. He walked through the door.
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"I must pack," he said.
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Near a sea of pianos, there were waves of chords that crashed against the shore in one huge and useless roar. And there were girls bringing water, like a dream they came to cool the fever of my brain, and soothe my burning throat. And they made me a necklace, hanging beads of sweat on a string of my regrets, and placed it round my neck and they were singing, ¡°Don¡¯t you do what you¡¯ve wanted to. Yeah, don¡¯t destroy yourself like those cowards do and maybe the sun keeps coming up because it has gotten used to you and your constant need for proof.¡±
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A Spindle, A Darkness, A Fever And A Necklace
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