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Look Me in the Eye and Tell Me That This Is the Year
Jason Abbate
Look Me in the Eye and Tell Me That This Is the Year by Jason Abbate
It will be a year of harvesting exclamationpoints from the garment district of your mind.It will be the year you finally buy a used copyof The Ultimate Guide to Organizing Your Lifefor five dollars at the Zing Café. The year whenyou’ll decide that you are after all the kind ofperson who counts the verbs in your grandfather’sconfession and the next morning when he pretendsto strangle himself, you’ll be the kind of personpaddling the moment’s tireless satire straight upthe future’s fractured sleev














