Ideas and phrases swirl in my head as I fuzzily awake in the morning and continue until the remaining nagging ruminations of the day keep me from falling asleep for the first hour my head hits the pillow at night.

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He now uses his iPhone's notebook app to jot down phrases that float into his head, because he couldn't read the handwriting in the many notebooks he filled over the years.

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The rail-thin Thomassin, all angles and scars and wounded bravado behind his scruffy mustache, and Beaugrand, a tall, pale beauty who hunches her shoulders and bows her head and peers out from beneath her brow through a floppy lock of hair, energetically tangle and trade etched phrases and aggressive silences in fluid long takes that seem composed of a series of sculptural tableaux.

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