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Most of all, I want to write on your skin with the tip of my finger, printing one capital letter at a time on the sloping vellum of your back. I want you to guess the message being written on your flesh as children do in summer at the beach, to feel the shape of every letter being traced upon your body-- oh, ideal reader-- to read with your eyes shut tight, kneeling in the sand, facing the open sea.
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