“…the state of mind that precedes a schizophrenic breakdown. When God is a mother she is said to be everywhere” (66). “When God is a father he is said to be elsewhere. “What Simone Weil said: Attention without an object is a supreme form of prayer” (54). “Advice for wives circa 1896: The indiscriminate reading of novels is one of the most injurious habits to which a married woman can be subject” (49). The most charismatic people-the poets, the mystics, the explorers-were that way because they had somehow managed to keep a bit of this light that was meant to have dimmed” (30). That all are born radiating light but that this light diminished slowly (if one was lucky) or abruptly (if one was not). “What did you do today, you’d say when you got home from work, and I’d try my best to craft an anecdote for you out of nothing” (25). A home has a perimeter” - re nuclear family
“The reason to have a home is to keep certain people in an everyone else out. Nabokov didn’t even fold his own umbrella.
I was going to be an Art Monster instead. “ Life equals structure plus activity” (6) Referenced quotes from Department of Speculation (2014) by Jenny Offill (4.10.19)
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