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A short piece in which, over the course of a week, a woman discovers that she can eat the light and the experiences of the objects and people around her. Abandoned in the desert when imprisonment proves impractical, she resorts to eating herself and, with herself, the rest of the story.
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The work has an epigraph from James Joyce's Finnegan's Wake: 'All moanday, tearsday, wailsday, thumpsday, fright-day, shatterday'.
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