More on this book
Community
Kindle Notes & Highlights
by
Amber Sparks
Read between
June 25 - June 26, 2021
Scenes are for lovers. Friends are supposed to move on. Friends can be ghosted. But best friends?
Maybe then he would have understood her better, understood how suffering steals the aptitude for happiness from you. Maybe he would have been okay with her melancholy then.
Lavoisier’s wife, in fact, upon further research, was probably more of an equal, a co-collaborator, than a helpmeet. Isn’t that the most dreadful word, helpmeet? Should we look up the etymology, because that’s what one does in these sorts of faux-scholarly pieces? Oh, would you look at this, helpmeet: “from the Bible, Genesis 2:18, 20, where Adam’s future wife is discussed as ‘an help meet for him.’ ” Lavoisier’s wife surely could have used a barf emoji, had she ever looked up the origin of “helpmeet” and shared it with Charlotte Corday. Lavoisier’s wife’s text: Can you even fucking believe
...more
They married because the wife thought she could open him up, pull out wild Irish weather. But when she tried she found a map of Cleveland instead.
It is this the robots cannot understand. That human love is mostly failure. That failure may be very sad, but it is yours, and you hold on to it if you can.
