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putting these things on paper meant you had to unpack your own disgrace in ugly black and white.
“That doesn’t mean you were boring, ma p’tite. Just bored. Most women are bored, because being female is boring. We only get married because it’s something to do, and then we have children and find out babies are the only thing more boring than other women.”
Life ought to be more like a play; the entrances and exits would be a lot cleaner.
“Lethe is the river of forgetfulness that runs through the underworld, so the classics tell us, and there is nothing more potent than forgetfulness.
