Status Updates From Speedboat

“We may win this year. We may lose it all. It is not going as well as we thought. Posterity, anyway, does not know everything. The simplest operations of life—voting in a booth, filling out returns, remembering whether or not one has just taken a pill—are very difficult.... As is clear from the parking regulations, however, there are situations in which you are not entitled to stop.”

Experimental/avant garde writing seldom works for me, but I really like this. Urbane, jet-set, '70s vibe, with precursors to the terse social media stylings we all use now. Unexpectedly funny, like if a more gonzo version of Fran Lebowitz wrote for the National Lampoon in its heyday, but in Adler's own voice.