He stands in a still-zone while the “actual” passes through him. Every significant event - even those he should intensely experience, like having sex – he feels indirectly. (He constructs elaborate lies about his mother’s death and his father being a fascist.) He often confesses to these manipulations and is dreadfully aware of his dishonesty.Īdam takes pills to quiet the dialogue between his feelings and actions, and he relieves the emptiness of experience by smoking a lot of marijuana, which sparks in him a state of unmitigated appraisal of forms in nature and in conversation. Perceived misunderstandings about his grasp of Spanish lead him to represent himself in a way he thinks would be in line with expectations about a poet studying abroad. The idea of translating language saturates his every encounter, as Adam pretends to understand an event or a person. The narrator, Adam Gordon, is highly conscious of these various thresholds. In Leaving the Atocha Station, an aspiring American poet on fellowship in Madrid finds himself in the places between languages, between feeling and thought, between places, and, most often, between lived experience and “the moment of art.” Acclaimed poet Ben Lerner’s first novel is a fascinating and often brilliant investigation of the distance (or the communication) between experience and art. Now all of a sudden it Only shows up in a totally different state and with exact name search. Is there something I could do to send signals to Google to show that I am in Matthews, NC?Ģ months ago my listing quit showing up at all unless you typed exact business name What could possibly cause my listing or Google to do this? I have been without my listing for a few months now and have NO calls coming in from it. If you search Locksmith Independence, KS it shows up on the maps. If you search Locksmith Matthews, NC my listing does not show up at all. Keep in mind the GMB is in Matthews, NC All my service areas and the actual map show the correct areas. Now if I search my business name under the auto populate I see it with Independence, KS on the listing. I pretty much do not have any traffic, views or calls now. Posted about my SAB listing a few weeks ago about not showing up in search only when you entered the exact name.

Leaving the atocha station