Keller Easterling

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And most unspeakable is the use of the first person—the one reinforcing the one reinforcing the one.” Draft Teenage Essay Eleven: Entertainment suggested that conceiving of someone’s life as a story is a cultural error. It is not just that no one’s life can be a story. It’s that, luckily and happily, stories do not exist at all.
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Draft Teenage Essay Thirteen, like all the teenage essays, structures itself to reflect the phenomenon it describes, which in this case is about the atomization of the body—the broadcast of the body’s material outside of the limits of the skin. The essay describes how teenagers, with practice, can achieve a state of relaxation by distributing their body into their surroundings and even out over significant distances.
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