How to Love Everyone and Almost Get Away with It

94 Pages·2021·0.497 MB·English

by  Lara Egger

HOW TO LOVE
EVERYONE

AND ALMOST
GET AWAY WITH IT
LARA EGGER
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HOW TO LOVE EVERYONE
AND ALMOST
GET AWAY WITH IT
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HOW TO LOVE EVERYONE
AND ALMOST
GET AWAY WITH IT
Lara Egger
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University of Massachusetts Press
Amherst and Boston
Copyright © 2021 by University of Massachusetts Press
All rights reserved
Printed in the United States of America
ISBN 978- 1- 62534- 571- 4 (paper)
Designed by Sally Nichols
Set in Dante MT Pro and Neutra Titling
Printed and bound by Books International, Inc.
Cover design by Kristina Kachele Design, llc
Cover art: Kat Evans, Sketchbook Page 1, © 2019. Courtesy of the artist.
www.katevans.art.
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For my teachers
and for teachers everywhere
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Contents
Dead Reckoning 1
A New New Guide 2
The Igneous Hours 3
Driving Lessons 4
Eleven Days in Alicante 5
S.O.S. 7
Wanderlust 8
The One- Hit Wonders 9
If You’re Anything like Me 10
A New New Guide to Heredity 11
Stille Nacht 12
Drunkest Etc. 13
At Washington Square Tavern 14
The Bridge between Us 15
Museum of the Heart 16
Another Version of My Confession 18
A New New Guide to Lunar Ambulation 19
Every Promise Eventually Sounds like an Apology 20
Boy George Is My Spirit Animal 21
The Pillow Book 23
Because I Am Stuck in My Own Syntax 25
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The Lovemaking Habits of Icebergs 26
My Desire Is an Orchestra That Only Knows One Song 27
Kiss Me and You Will See How Important You Are 28
The Mondegreen 29
A New New Guide to Irony 30
The January of Having Everything 31
The Persuasion 32
The Accident 33
Sure, I Took the Pamphlet on Breaking Bad Habits 34
Charades 35
In Flagrante 36
A New New Guide to Root Vegetables 37
Mutual Disambiguation 38
In Our Garden of Eden 39
The Prophecy 40
Please Don’t Leave Me Unattended 41
How to Love Everyone and Almost Get Away with It 42
A New New Guide to Entropy 43
We All Get Turned Around 44
In My Wandering Circus of Desire 45
Vanishing Points of Arrival 46
Sanguine 47
Sweet Girl 48
A New New Guide to Self- Help 49
Weapons of Probable Destruction 50
Having Said That 51
Tell Me the One about the Marxist with a Horse Named Trotsky 52
Delivery by Mouth 54
The Flightless Birds 55
Because There’s No Emoji for Memory 56
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