Holly Lofgreen’s Reviews > Two Hearts, Two Mouths > Status Update

"Whether seismic or cellular, the change that is always underway transforms into what passes as inevitability. Inside the storm, we turn into the skid or we do not. What follows next—the avoidance of the crash or the crash—becomes first: the inescapable future; then: the unalterable past. This is not fatalism. It is connection.

Neither is it determinism?

I confuse cachaca and curaçao, not sake and soju (rice wine).

I am enjoying the characters, and Alma’s favoritism of bourbon libation—the old fashioned over the manhattan. Selvedge denim is out of my league and above my pay grade. Architects are frivolous and life peters away lonelingly. Fledglings are rare. Birds in the hand. Light fleeting and fleetingly, life. Swift of foot, preening and self destructive. I am Japan. I like Jed. Lucky laughed.