Dept. of Speculation

by Jenny Offill

This is another way in which he is an admirable person. If he notices something is broken, he will try to fix it. He won’t just think about how unbearable it is that things keep breaking, that you can never fucking outrun entropy.

I am extremely unhandy. If something breaks that is in my possession, it will remain broken unless someone else steps in. Even if just the battery runs out, I might blame entropy and not replace it. For example, I have a fancy electric toothbrush that I now use like a regular toothbrush. I am not proud of being this way, but I have never succeeded in changing my bad habits. Everyone else in my house is very clever and mechanically minded so this often saves the day.