The Collected Stories Of Lorrie Moore - Plot & Excerpts
Clowns! elephants! trained horses! peanuts! Everybody likes the circus. Acrobats! tight-rope walkers! camels! band music! Suppose you had a choice of going to the circus or painting a picture. Which would you choose? You'd choose the circus. Everybody likes the circus. V. M. Hillyer and E. G. Huey, A Child's History of Art all the movies that year were about people with plates in their heads: Spirits from another galaxy gather in a resort town at night, taking over the townspeople—all but the man with the plate in his head. Or: A girl with a plate in her head wanders a city beach, believing she is someone else. Evidence washes up on shore. There are sailors. Or: A woman dreams of a beautiful house in which no one lives, and one day she passes the actual house—a cupola, gables, and a porch. She walks up to it, knocks on the door, and it is opened slowly by her! a woman who is a twin of herself, grinning. She has a plate in her head. Life seemed to have become like that. It had burst out of itself, like a bug.
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