Life As It Is

Reading David Cronenberg’s novel Consumed (excellent so far), I’m struck by how the characters relentlessly theorize about the meaning of what they’re doing, the sex they’re having, their friendships, relationships and work tools, burying what’s happening under piles of ideas and metaphors.

So many of us do this. It seems more interesting to me to strip away rather than add, to experience what’s there, what is, rather than our ideas, comparisons and opinions...