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Contrast the American "normalcy" Lee fled with the "Interzone" he is creating.

At the end, Milo sometimes thought of the line he’d underlined on the page about hands. Hands, the file suggested, perform the verbs of intimacy. They catalog the work of being human: to fold, to hold, to furtively pass a note across a table. Milo would watch hands now in a way he hadn’t before — not to own them, but to learn from them. They taught him the grammar of care: small motions that become sentences. queer william burroughs pdf

As he read, Milo felt Jonas's breath in the other room, asleep; he felt the radiator’s click like punctuation. The city outside the window was a smear of lurid headlights and an ambulance siren that completed the sentence started on the page. He could close the laptop and what he’d read would be a private trespass. But the PDF kept insisting on reaching across its pages. It contained transcripts of late-night phone calls between William and unnamed interlocutors; a poem scribbled on the back of a library receipt about wanting to be folded like a book; an annotated shopping list that turned toothpaste into a symbol for small, domestic care. Contrast the American "normalcy" Lee fled with the