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115 The Soldier The other’s body was divided: on one side, the body proper—skin, eyes— tender, warm; and on the other side, the voice—abrupt, reserved, subject to fits of remoteness, a voice which did not give what the body gave. —Roland Barthes, A Lover’s Discourse The soldier returned from war carrying the same bag with which she’d gone away. The soldier, returning from war, considered getting pregnant but could not imagine how. The soldier upon returning from the war sold her house and moved into an apartment which she decorated with world maps, national maps, and strategic maps, from the floor to the ceiling and then all across the floors and the ceilings. When she smoked, she ashed carefully into the small opening of a soda can.

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