The Account of Objects
The bench does not remember the woman who sat on it. It does not remember the weight of her body, the pressure of her hands, the warmth that seeped from her into the wood and then dissipated into the cold evening air. The bench is pine, treated with linseed oil, and it records physical impressions the way water records ripples: momentarily, without meaning, then gone. The bench is not a...
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