briana > Recent Status Updates

Ever since his death I have inexplicably felt that those misspellings bring us closer to each other. That we meet in them.

When we first wake up in the morning we trade rest for profit.

Each time we find a way to minimize our effort and increase our gain we are making a business deal, even if it is with ourselves.

Making last friends and testing character. As essential in business as having a good grasp of number.

Business is the coming denominator of all activities and enterprises. This, in turn, means there is no affair that does not pertain to the businessman. To him everything is relevant.

What all this shows is that from the tenderest age he had the ability to shape the world to his will.

Denial is always a form of confirmation.

—enabled seekers aiming to soothe the distress and ennui of contemporary existence.

Speech is what constructs that little world inside the screen, …

“SoulCycle is just a place where you can escape being what you have to be as a discerning self-possessed woman trying to succeed, … You can just give yourself over to the culty lady telling you what to do. It’s like womb regression in there. You get to be like, I’m a tiny scared baby,’ and then you come out and you’re like, ‘Yeah I bought hundred-and-twenty-dollar Lululemons, and fuck you.’”

But a candle in the dimly lit library of existence.

For an hour or so, she would enjoy the bliss of impersonality—of becoming pure perception, of existing only as that which saw the mountaintop, heard the bell, smelled the air.

Around this core of quiet discomfort, they managed to build a strong marriage.