Status Updates From Pitch Dark

I love her

And the thing of course is this that to me my life is serious. It is just that, I don't know, the reality I inhabit is already slant. In the sense I think that Emily Dickinson meant by Tell it true but tell it slant.

When we had been in graduate school at Cambridge, for just one year, Maggie, a friend from college, announced that she was quitting, moving elsewhere, moving on. I asked why. After all, Maggie, I said, this is Harvard, Cambridge. It's been only a year, here we are, just two semesters. Why? 'Well,' she said, 'I've played this card now.'