Potem pulz.
Potem pavza.
Potem somrak v zaboju.
Spodaj tema.
Potem generacije.
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Potem ista vojna z drugim imenom.
Vino, ki pljunka v vedru.
Erekcija, era.
Potem Razum odide.
Potem otožnost brez razloga.
Potem ročna odstranitev stropa.
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Potem strani & strani številk.
Potem stran z bledo zelenim madežem.
Potem stran, na kateri je smrtno ranjen princ Theodor vržen na voz.
Potem stran, na kateri se Masha omoži z nekom drugim.
Potem stran, ki se obrne k zgodbi nekoga drugega.
Potem stran, načičkana v daktilih.
Potem stran, ki se začne z Angel odide.
Potem stran, ovita okrog mrtve ribe.
Potem stran, kjer sužnji pridejo do morja.
Potem dremež.
Potem sponka.
Potem stran s čudno čelado.
Potem stran, na kateri se melje proso.
Potem smrt Ursule.
Potem kamnita stran, postavljena nad njeno glavo.
Potem travnata stran, ki se nadaljuje
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Lepota odide
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Potem stran, ki jo je nekdo prepognil, da bi jo označil.
Potem stran, na kateri se nič ne zgodi.
Potem stran za to stranjo.
Potem prepis.
Bije od znotraj.
Interpretacija, potem žetev.
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Stiska odide.
Potem ljubezenska zgodba.
Potem izlet k ruševinam.
Potem & samo potem vijoličast zapisnik.
Potem upanje brez razloga.
Potem izgradnja podzemnega prehoda med nama.
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Then the pulse.
Then a pause.
Then twilight in a box.
Dusk underfoot.
Then generations.
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Then the same war by a different name.
Wine splashing in a bucket.
The erection, the era.
Then exit Reason.
Then sadness without reason.
Then the removal of the ceiling by hand.
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Then pages & pages of numbers.
Then the page with the faint green stain.
Then the page on which Prince Theodore, gravely wounded, is thrown onto a wagon.
Then the page on which Masha weds somebody else.
Then the page that turns to the story of somebody else.
Then the page scribbled in dactyls.
Then the page which begins Exit Angel.
Then the page wrapped around a dead fish.
Then the page where the serfs reach the ocean.
Then a nap.
Then the peg.
Then the page with the curious helmet.
Then the page on which millet is ground.
Then the death of Ursula.
Then the stone page they raised over her head.
Then the page made of grass which goes on.
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Exit Beauty.
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Then the page someone folded to mark her place.
Then the page on which nothing happens.
The page after this page.
Then the transcript.
Knocking within.
Interpretation, then harvest.
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Exit Want.
Then a love story.
Then a trip to the ruins.
Then & only then the violet agenda.
Then hope without reason.
Then the construction of an underground passage between us.