IMPRINTS 12 As you read this story . consider how the images support and complement the text Things That Fly by Douglas Coupland I'm sitting hunched...
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IMPRINTS 12As you read this story .consider how the images supportand complement the textThingsThat Flyby Douglas CouplandI'm sitting hunched over the livingroom coffee table on a Sunday80night , in a daze , having just wokenup from a deep deep sleep on acouch shared with pizza boxes andcrushed plastic cherry yogurt con -cainers . In front of me a TV gameshow is playing on MUTE and myhead rests on top of my hands , as though I am praying , but Iam not ; I am rubbing my eyes and trying to wake up , and myhair is brushing the cabletop which is covered in crumbs and !am thinking to myself that , in spite of everything that has hap -pened in my life , I have never lost the sensation of alwaysbeing on the brink of some magic revelation - that if only Iwould look closely enough at the world , then that magic reve-lation would be mine - if only I could wake up just that little*bit more , then ... well - let me describe what happened today .Today went like this : I was up atnoon ; instant coffee ; watched a talksshow ; a game show ; a bit of football ;a religious something - or - other ; thenI turned the TV off . I drifted list-lessly about the house , from silentroom to silent room , spinning the- awheels of the two mountain bikeson their racks in the hallway andstraightening a pile of CDS glued together with spilled OrangeCrush in the living room . I suppose I was trying to pretend !had real things to do , but , well , I didn't .143
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