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Hanif Abdurraqib

Our Longing for Inconvenience

Our Longing for Inconvenience

An essay by Hanif Abdurraqib published in The New Yorker

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    ““It is, in some ways, inconvenient to believe that your one significant life can collide meaningfully with someone else's, someone whom you have to put the work into finding, in the outside world, where people still sometimes go to the market, reaching and reaching and reaching.” the fun is in the friction!”

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