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A subway passenger\u2019s leather bracelet prompts musings on the German word for stranger; Montaigne leads to the memory of a fourth-grade friend\u2019s stinky feet. Koestenbaum dreams about a hand job from John Ashbery, swims next to Nicole Kidman, reclaims Robert Rauschenberg\u2019s squeegee, and apotheosizes Marguerite Duras as a destroyer of sentences. He directly proposes assignments to readers: \u201cBuy a one-dollar cactus, and start anthropomorphizing it. Call it Sabrina.\u201d \u201cDescribe an ungenerous or unkind act you have committed.\u201d \u201cFind in every orgasm an encyclopedic richness . . . Reimagine doing the laundry as having an orgasm, and reinterpret orgasm as not a tiny experience, temporally limited, occurring in a single human body, but as an experience that somehow touches on all of human history.\u201d Figure It Out is both a guidebook for, and the embodiment of, the practices of pleasure, attentiveness, art, and play.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cToward what goal do I aspire, ever, but collision? Always accident, concussion, bodies butting together . . . 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