Nevertheless, on the second floor there is one window which is not boarded; sometimes in the late afternoon when the heat is at its worst a hand will slowly open the shutter and a face will look down on the town. It is a face like the terrible dim faces known in dreams -- sexless ...
Which ultimately leads me to the final conclusion of not at all being surprised by any of these terrible decisions made by both writer and director, when after googling them I found out both are very inexperienced in this field of expertise. And I'm so tired of seeing bad directors and ...
She often wrote to Tsar Ivan the Terrible on amicable terms, though the Tsar was often annoyed by her focus on commerce rather than on the possibility of a military alliance. Ivan even proposed to her once, and during his later reign, asked for a guarantee to be granted asylum in England...
Even if shedoeshave a secret robot chromosome, how could that possibly be a bad thing? It would certainly explain a few things. But whatever, I’m so over the drama. Anyone who knows mankind knows this is what happens when men get sick: ...
as they might, they can’t adopt my sense of defiant wholeness in the face of a world that thinks I’m lacking crucial human ingredients. My essential sense of enoughness, of abundance, must feel like desperate adaptation to someone who can watch the sun put on a show whenever they want...
I’ve been a participant in the drama. Let me now step into, ‘How do I want to set my own emotional tone and my own emotional reality as I deal with that which is in front of me and must be dealt with.’” Because what most people do is, “I don’t like that” and they...
“I’m trying,” I said. “Why, what’s wrong?” he asked. I told him the whole story. “My mother, in China, broke her leg and didn’t understand any of the doctors. And I’m too far away to do anything!” I said. He raised his eyebrows. “Beijing, you said?” he asked...
Another thing is that in principle I’m a pro-mortalist rather than an antinatalist. The absence of already existing persons seems as desirable to me as the prevention of entities that don’t exist and can’t be imagined as potentially being alive in any particular way. Pro-mortalism is...
Certainly. Is it full of troubled people doing terrible things? Full to the brim. Are all of the characters and their relationships wildly dysfunctional? Damn right. Does it feel like parts of its 1500 or so pages were written in a giddy fever dream? Sure does.Does the censorship of...
Trapped in a SUV for a cross country trip, even with millions up for grabs, is a lot. The reality of the road trip was really neat. While, with the exception of national chains, the motels & restaurants were fictional, all of the attractions, tourist sites, and museums were real. That...