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Marathe and Kate at Ryle's — "The billowing shaped black sailing wing…"

quote

‘The billowing shaped black sailing wing. I am so totally Identifying it’s not even funny.’

Context

Kate's own name for It, tossed off as an Identification: the billowing shape she and Geoffrey Day circled at pp. 648-651, compressed into one noun-pile — and "Identifying" capitalized, Boston-AA-style, by the woman the essay defined as Unable To Identify. Depression is the one thing she can Identify with.

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