steve: oh sash, whatever happened to our totally insane social lives?
Sasha: the one where we stayed up all night watching arrested development, rolled in the snow together, slept on floors, punched washing machines and so on?
Sasha: i think we just grew up.
steve: yeah. i think so. weird, isn’t it?
Sasha: IT IS WEIRD STEVE. WE GREW UP. WHAT IS THAT ABOUT?
The only good piece of advice I have for my students is, “Write something you’d never show your mother or father.”
- Lorrie Moore
this year i devour
without guilt
which is also an art.
if you have to work hard, work now
“What does that mean?”
“Nothing. Well, the logic is that when forced into an aversive situation (such as being dumped into a pool) the rat will oscillate between attempts to escape and resigning to its fate”
“And this guy gave up?”
“Today he did.”
“Does he usually?”
“Yeah. See.. I’m trying to quantify how helpless this rat feels and why more today than yesterday. “
(From the opening scene of Gigantic with zooey deschanel; even rats succumb to russian fatalism)
