Siri Hustvedt
American novelist, essayist, poet
The Blazing World.
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What does love feel like?
Relationships
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You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
I learned how to play The Wind Cries Mary guitar solo.
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Singing on the Berlin Wall to a million people in 1989.
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In the last couple of years, Britain.
Worryingly close to absolute panic.
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