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From Elissa Wald, Alexander Chee's description of having written a good story: "Lorrie Moore calls the feeling I felt that day 'the consolations of the mask,' where you make a place that doesn't exist in your own life for the life your life has no room for, the exiles of your memory."

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Dead Tauntaun wedding cake; it may be just as well that I'll probably never get married, or I'd be tempted.