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Two Girls Fat and Thin
by Mary Gaitskill
dark
emotional
reflective
Mary Gaitskill you stare into my soul... TFW you finally meet someone who you think understands you and the only thing worse than realizing that they don't is realizing that they do, but not completely. Also love the Nabokov epigraph (and Justine's surname being Shade is presumably a Pale Fire shoutout) which also reminds me that Gaitskill has the correct Nabokov take: trying to imitate his prose makes you look stupid but he's still thrilling to read and can perhaps influence you in less obvious ways
"What he said bore no relation to what she felt, but she was seduced by the idea of herself prancing through his imagination as a tiny porn queen while the truth of what had happened lay safely hidden in a pocket of misunderstanding. At the same time, she felt a compulsion to make him understand her, and she was disconcerted to realize that the more he refused to do so, the more desperate the compulsion would become. 'Really,' she said, smiling. 'It wasn’t like that.' And she told the story again."
"What he said bore no relation to what she felt, but she was seduced by the idea of herself prancing through his imagination as a tiny porn queen while the truth of what had happened lay safely hidden in a pocket of misunderstanding. At the same time, she felt a compulsion to make him understand her, and she was disconcerted to realize that the more he refused to do so, the more desperate the compulsion would become. 'Really,' she said, smiling. 'It wasn’t like that.' And she told the story again."