Same Same by Peter Mendelsund

Author:Peter Mendelsund
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published: 2019-02-05T05:00:00+00:00

You learn things about people from touching. And, once again, I’m not referring to sexual things. What you learn is something regarding their ineffable, secret self. Without touching, you can only guess at the touched self. What is transferred through touch? I’m not sure. Maybe selfhood is like a virus, a species or combination of molecules which, once sloughed off, transmit little bundles of information. Who knows. Idk. What I do know is that Miss Fairfax is less enigmatic to me now, thanks to this transferal, through this, our material connection.

Meanwhile, her mirror eyes are now locked upon my mirror eyes, and the hairbrush is moving back and forth, as if sculpting my head out of clay…and I shiver, and come to.

Enough, I think.

Enough of having my hair brushed. (I am not, after all, a child.)

She knows why I have to leave her now—knows as well as I do.

“I have Group.”

And, as if it were only for her benefit, I add, “I must be single-minded about my project. Totally ruthless.

“Ruthless,” I repeat.

Then I knock the brush from her hand, and rise toward the door.

Openmouthed, she hurries to follow.

And when I open the door to my flat, there’s a piece of white paper slumped up against it as if exhausted. I look down at it, then look over to Miss Fairfax, who looks at me as if awaiting the answer to a minor question.

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