Wednesday, December 2, 2015

Dept. of Speculation - Jenny Offill

- And that phrase - "sleeping like a baby." Some blonde said it blithely on the subway the other day. I wanted to lie down next to her and scream for five hours in her ear. 

- This is another way in which he is an admirable person. If he notices something is broken, he will try to fix it. He won't just think about how unbearable itvis that things keep breaking, that you can never fucking outrun entropy. 

- I decided to make my class read creation myths. The idea is to go back to the beginning. In some, God is portrayed as a father, in others, as a mother. When God is a father, he is said to be elsewhere. When God is a mother, she is said to be everywhere. 

- But my agent has a theory. She says every marriage is jerry-rigged. Even the ones that look reasonable from the outside are held together inside with chewing gum and wire and string. 

- The only love that feels like love is the doomed kind.