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"In this kind of novel, the protagonist was always a woman and always sad [...] and spent a lot of the book's plot doing only one thing, but doing it well: sleeping, driving, smoking, going on holiday or having conversations at length--all the while making general observations under very specific circumstances as a veiled way of saying something about the nature of womanhood"

lol

"I watched reruns of Friends instead and resented the fact that Monica never asked any of the characters for rent, even when she worked a waitress job in a diner, even when she couldn't get a catering job for four months. I listened to the laugh track echo around her purple and chintz living room: dull, soothing monoglossia."

maybe instead we just want to follow the snake back to its lair. maybe we write to get down that hole, and figure out what's there, and come up with new words for it...

far from the madding clicks