would love to have the audacity of the man on the airport shuttle who asked the driver if he could be let off along the way because he wasn’t going to the airport, actually
people who have been using the em dash long before ai know that it’s the jazz riff of punctuation, the tightrope between intuition and impulse, the trapdoor for digressions—it’s the writing fidget spinner for centrifugal thinkers
I have dual citizenship and have had multiple US customs encounters where they were legit offended, gobs fully smacked, that I would choose to live in Canada and demand to know why 🥴