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‘Do not go gentle into that good night’
It was an otherwise ordinary day when Shane first made a noise as he sat down.
“You just ‘oofed’, ” Hayley said.
“Did I?” he said, sounding pleased.
He was an oofer from then on, and the further his freefalls onto soft seating, the louder he was.
Previously unassuming, he became raucous in other ways, too: his sneezes rattling windows, his yawns evoking foghorns, his laughter turning heads in restaurants.
When Hayley accused him of being performative, he quoted Dylan Thomas: “‘Do not go gentle into that good night,’ ” he said.
“You’re 36!” she scoffed. “Nevertheless,” he replied, as if that were explanation enough.
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