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I remember, around age ten, beholding the scene in The Shining in which the hot young woman whom Jack Nicholson is lewdly embracing in the haunted hotel bathroom ages rapidly in his arms, screeching from nubile chick to putrefying corpse within seconds. I understood that the scene was supposed to represent some kind of primal horror. This was The Shining, after all. But the image of that decaying, cackling crone, her arms outstretched in desire toward the man who is backing away, has stayed with me for three decades, as a type of friend. She’s part baths-ghost, part mad-Naomi. She didn’t get the memo about being beyond wanting or being wanted. Or perhaps she just means to scare the shit out of him, which she does.
Maggie Nelson The Argonauts aging women

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Unscramble MAGGIE6-letter words that start with M6-letter words that end in E6-letter words containing AG6-letter words containing IE6-letter words with M and A
Poet’s word, with inverted comma, for the end of the day
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The old plural of Eye.
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