Bewildering Offspring

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Essays, poems and other loose collections of words aiming to smooth out my own rugged investigations into the realities and virtualities of person-hood. Because life is bewildering.

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About Amanda Murphy

Reader-writer-translator-researcher living between worlds and languages.

“In the beginning, sometimes I left messages in the street.”
― David Markson, Wittgenstein's Mistress

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