dive into mark

Michael Barrish: Dollop. If we spend half our time wondering whether we are happy, we are bound to decide we are not. Thus it is best to avoid the question.

Sometimes I wish there were more than this. Well-structured, formulaic: at first exciting, then mundane, then slowly falling off into oblivion. Some things deserve more than this. And we… we turn him into an anecdote. Like we’re doing right now. Oh, tell them, Ouisa. Tell them the one about that boy. But it was… an experience. How do we hold on to the experience? (Six Degrees of Separation, 1993)

There it goes again, the same rhythm, only syncopated. A play within a play, with puppets for actors, trapped on a stage of their own creation. I need more. I need there to be more than this.

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