Sam Weller’s Reviews > Intermezzo > Status Update

‘A wild woman, her mother called her. A shocking piece of work. And so she is. Lord have mercy.’

There is so much more sex in this book than I remember. And yet it’s not smut. It’s just life. Idk.

‘Can I give you my number? He says. Like in case you ever think about me. I could just put the number into your phone and then it would be there, you wouldn’t even have to look at it again if you didn’t want to. What do you think?’

I love Ivan. Precious baby.

‘Christ also survived his own death. And was dignified and exalted’

Yes I’m reading Intermezzo again. No I’m not sorry about it.

‘what can one life hold in itself without breaking’

‘what can one life hold inside itself without breaking.’

‘You think you’re fitting language into the world in a certain way, like a child fitting the right shaped toy into the right-shaped slot. But at times you realise that that’s a false picture too. Language doesn’t fit into reality like a toy fitting into a slot.’

‘It means nothing. That isn’t true: It means something, but the meaning is unfamiliar.’

NO SHOT THIS IS HAPPENING- if they get together I- Sally please

Peter genuinely this is a pickle. A conundrum. I’m having physical anxiety and sadness for you and this situation. I do not know what I’d do. I’ve been way more relating to Ivan this whole book but this chapter has made me go :o

‘To force this moment into contact with her ordinary existence only seems to reveal how constricting, how misshapen her ideas of life have been before’

Life is what’s happening right now. How dumb it is to limit yourself based on what ideas or perceptions you’ve had in the past. Thus spoke Zarathustra