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The hot day could suggest that this is a post-coitum langour, and the rhyme word laid might not be as innocent as a reader might originally assume it to be.
He won Guggenheim fellowships in 1957 and 1958, and though he was a good saxophonist (with a Lester Young-like langour to his sound), composition increasingly took precedence over playing.
The film's unhurried surface, all quotidian tarry and erotic langour, begins to roil with portentous incident and unspoken sorrow when the lovers leave the city for an afternoon tryst in the forest (emblematically set on the Thai-Burmese border; borderlines are a key motif in Weerasethakul's work).
 
 
 
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