Michael Sasson > Recent Status Updates

OK, so I needed some distraction from the writing project...

"the project itself being black feminist metaphysics. which is to say, breathing."
"to put it in tweetable terms, they believed they had to hate black women in order to be themselves." both p6

Stories seem uneven. Some are as good as her novels and others seem meh...

p27 After we have childishly picked a fight with a lover who had looked distracted throughout dinner, there is relief in hearing Proust's narrator admit to us that "as soon as I found Albertine not being nice to me, instead of telling her I was sad, I became nasty," [....]

p3 There are few things humans are more dedicated to than unhappiness. Had we been placed on earth by a malign creator for the exclusive purpose of suffering, we would have good reason to congratulate ourselves on our enthusiastic response to the task.

p124 I try hard to be liked, I always have. I try hard to lessen other people's pain. I try hard because I can't face my own.
p140 And I'd remember my love for a man that almost made everything possible.
p141 It took a while to acknowledge the repercussions of that time. How the numbness in my fingertips traveled to my heart and I never even knew it.
p152 also

P68 He said that he'd read everything about swimming, firmly believing he could trip across words, like stepping-stones, to the bank of experience. But he couldn't. (see also p69)

P89 The original was painted by one of the loneliest men on earth. But painted in a frenzy of optimism and gratitude and hope. A celebration of the transcendent power of the color yellow.