Status Updates From The Dolphin Letters, 1970-1...

'She won't make the special effort as many people do to prepare for the exams, or take the tutoring seriously the school offers.'

‘We always think we are writing our autobiography, but life is not willing to tell \assure/ us which part of ourselves is the main one, which action is telling and what it tells. In that way I guess it is folly to see your life as a book—and such a clue for clever people who come after us to try to pierce our defenses..’

I’ll finish this today.

I don’t entirely wish you well, far from it, of course. —Elizabeth Hardwick

I'm certainly a masochist for pushing ahead.