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Saturday night the Café was too crowded so Ivan skipped the espresso and found a plastic step stool to read on in the “Vampire Novel” corner. After Ivan read a solid 40 pages he noticed two veteran freereaders in an opposite corner. They were occupying the floor the way a sleeping homeless person fills an abandoned storefront. Ivan thought that Tao Lin’s social anxiety was starting to really come through in the novel. In one paragraph Tao Lin’s character is eating chips and guac at a party thinking “eating chips and guac” and wondering if his brain is commanding his actions or if he’s passively narrating what’s happening. This resonated with Ivan who felt that his consciousness was often “guessing” why things were happening. When Ivan was content with his progress in Taipei he went up an escalator to return the book and then down three escalators to head to South Street.
Ivan had a coconut water from an all ages “graffiti” show he checked out at Corsa, a streetwear shop a few blocks up South Street from Whole Foods. Ivan wouldn’t say he “liked” the coconut water but he kept nipping i...

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