Bill Withers (1938–2020) American singer-songwriter and musician
On entering the US Navy in 1956.
Rollingstone interview (2015)
“Solipsism,” said Felise. “I thought that too, for a while, but it was so obvious that my cat didn’t think so, didn’t think I was the only thing in the universe, that I decided it wasn’t true.”
The Hour of Babel (p. 62)
Short fiction, The Bible Repairman and Other Stories (2011)
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