against narrative
To me, “The Darling” is about a tendency, present in all of us, to misunderstand love as “complete absorption in,” rather than “in full communication with.”
George Saunders • A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life
When you ask people to tell you about love, they tell you about heartbreak.
Ads do not need to reflect the target audience. They need to appeal to them
Ads do not need to reflect the target audience. They need to appeal to them
The story we are told of women is not this one. The story of women is the story of love, of foundering into another. A slight deviation: longing to founder and being unable to. Being left alone in the foundering, and taking things into one’s own hands: rat poison, the wheels of a Russian train. Even the smoother and gentler story is still just a mo
... See moreLauren Groff • Fates and Furies
Must every love identify an external rival before it can declare itself, before it can begin? No way! The reverse is the case: the immanent