4 Quotes by Elvia Wilk

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    She’s tired of being told where to go, so she decides to stop going anywhere. In what may look like a gesture of passivity, even self-destruction—imprisoning herself in a pot, crucifying herself on a fencepost—she stops, she refuses, she becomes silent, she grows, she becomes.

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    But if someone decides that our heating and cooling are unnatural, what’s next? Then someone will decide that clean water is fake, and then someone will decide that LEDs are fake, and then someone will say we can’t eat anything we don’t grow ourselves. Who actually decides these things?

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    The audience sat on collapsible stool-like things made of folded recyclable cardboard that existed for no reason other than to not be normal chairs. To subvert “the chair.” The institution was critical of institutions: this was the message they were supposed to get from the wobbly stools.

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    the water of myracewalks with O’Reilly soft touch absorbentinfalliblepro-agingbamboo follicleswho will inheritthe earthmisty plum[Gong noise]when your hair is on,you’re onfire

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