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Youth can have its advantages. Take the body, for example. At twenty, it can endure a night that lasts from seven p.m. until sunrise and still survive an eight hour work day before unconsciousness hits; usually in the shower ten minutes after a microwave dinner and a Simpson's repeat. Responsibilities are few.

1. Having not slept in four days I felt myself become another person.
2. Each other day half further fumbled; my brain one slight shade darker every waking hour.
3. Changeling. Scrambled.
4. 17 hours of sleep deprivation has been shown to cause a decrease in performance equivalent to a .05% blood-alcohol level.
5. Apparently I've been getting drunk since I was 10.

MY NABOKOV

Karen: I was thinking about the fact that good, emotionally-resonant experimental narrative is more rare to find than the heady or detached kind. I've been meaning to ask you, who were your prose influences when you started learning to write like you do now?