it has never been easier to be charming. i am batting 100 at my local coffee shops and restaurants. charisma is as easy as being able to handle a convo about the weather now
I do wish people understood that the prose is everything. There is no story “beneath” the prose. Cartesian dualism does not exist for books. There is no distinct soul of a book that can be separated from the body its prose. The experience of reading the language IS the novel.
My mom said to me at the end of her life, ‘God, I thought 84 years would seem longer.’ And I thought, ‘I bet, because I thought 54 would seem longer.’
this made me cry a lot ❤️🩹