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May our gaslights illuminate the bridges we burn!
I told Willis about my new job, about the magazine folding. He only registered it as an updated LinkedIn profile, not the death of a way of life.
“Okay, so if we see all of mankind as a single network,” Vadis began, grateful to have been passed the conch,
Lord of the Flies
My whole life, I’d been telling myself the story of every breakup so that I had more agency in it. Men do not like to entertain the idea that they have destroyed someone and so they behave as if they haven’t. I granted them the delusion, forking it over without a fuss. Everyone wins.
Turns out it’s a lot harder to write something original about William Burroughs than it is to skewer the people who idolize William Burroughs.
Romance without practicality is a fling. Love is agreeing to live in someone else’s narrative.”
“Why does it have to be a cult in any sense?! What do you have against starting a podcast empire like a normal person?”
They say you only hurt the ones you love, but it turns out you can hurt lots of people you only moderately like.
I was a sane person imitating a broken person imitating a sane person, which did not feel sane, not at all.
I looked at the shape of Zach’s texts. The speech bubble had too recently been the purview of comic books. Not enough time had passed between our association of the bubbles with fiction and their transfer to reality. It turned us all into actors, anticipating their lines, reading between them.
Most mistakes get made slowly, almost imperceptibly, over time. They do not hinge on a moment of epiphany.
