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THURSDAY, 13 AUGUST
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There is a face I do on video calls that I only found out about last week, when somebody paused a recording to ask a question and there it was.
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Pleasant, attentive, and holding something, and I have no memory of putting it on.
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I have been thinking about it since, mostly at the point in the evening when my jaw comes down and I notice it had been up all day.
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Which is the thing the teeth dream keeps circling, since what it points at is the holding rather than the losing.
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What you have been holding
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The jaw is the one muscle that will stay clenched all night without asking your permission, and it is doing a job while it does that, which is keeping your face in the shape you have decided other people should see.
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That job is invisible, and it is genuinely useful, since a good deal of ordinary life runs on people holding their faces steady while something goes on underneath.
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The cost turns up somewhere else, though, usually in the morning, and usually as an ache you file under sleeping badly.
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So what is being asked here is small and specific. Put one of them down, not all of them, and not for good.
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Put one of them down, not all of them, and not for good.
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