This is a short story by one of my favorite authors, Lydia Davis. It’s called “Grammar Questions” and it's one of her stories that discusses language and grammar in a rather existential way. Turning the words and tenses inside and out. This one particular is in relation to death and how one might go about referring to a dying person in the other room. I…
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