My air travel companion
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"The supermarket is for me what the beach is for other people: it's eternal."
"The supermarket is for me what the beach is for other people: it's eternal."
"The most romantic love stories are the ones where nobody ever gets what they want because they are always pretending they don't want it."
"I touch my face. I feel for stubble. I find some. I shave again. Put down the razor. Splash water on my cheeks and look at my misted image in the bathroom mirror: ghostly."
I took off its cover.
This is a nice anthology. Every beautifully weird essay (💛) is followed by a craft reflection from the author.
I'm reading Winter in the Blood again.
"I make the rule up, moment to moment. I mean, the moment conjures the rule."
"So other people hurt me? That's their problem. Their character and actions are not mine. What is done to me is ordained by nature, what I do by my own."
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