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Reflecting on past selves, see below for twenty-three:
“She was always a good deal of trouble, and I suspect she will reappear when I least want to see her, (…) always the injured party, full of recriminations and little hurts and stories I do not want to hear again, at once saddening me and angering me with her vulnerability and ignorance, an apparition all the more insistent for being so long banished.
— Feb 24, 2024 05:19PM
“She was always a good deal of trouble, and I suspect she will reappear when I least want to see her, (…) always the injured party, full of recriminations and little hurts and stories I do not want to hear again, at once saddening me and angering me with her vulnerability and ignorance, an apparition all the more insistent for being so long banished.
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From the essay, “On Keeping a Notebook:”
“The impulse to write things down is a peculiarly compulsive one, inexplicable to those who do not share it, useful only accidentally, only secondarily, in the way that any compulsion tries to justify itself.”
Savoring this collection of essays. Didion’s voice is sharp, candid, lucid.
— Feb 24, 2024 05:13PM
“The impulse to write things down is a peculiarly compulsive one, inexplicable to those who do not share it, useful only accidentally, only secondarily, in the way that any compulsion tries to justify itself.”
Savoring this collection of essays. Didion’s voice is sharp, candid, lucid.
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“Ira Sandperl is a forty-two-year-old native of St. Louis who has, besides the beard, a shaved head, a large nuclear-disarmament emblem on his corduroy jacket, glittering and slightly messianic eyes, a high cracked laugh and the general look of a man who has, all his life, followed some imperceptibly but fatally askew rainbow.”
— Feb 14, 2024 08:08AM
