brinig on the coasts

"In California, men and women had a most distressing or amusing habit (it depended on your own mood) of ripping themselves open so that you could see their insides, their brains and intestines. In New York, it was rare to enter into anyone; nearly all the inhabitants were locked away in desperate silences." - Myron Brinig, The Flutter of an Eyelid (1933)
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