Dept. Of Speculation

She lives in the country but is always threatening to move to England. Her husband is British. He would like to solve all their problems with boarding school and compulsory backgammon.

Advice from Hesiod: Choose from among the girls who live near you and check every detail, so that your bride will not be the neighborhood joke. Nothing is better for man than a good wife, and no horror matches a bad one.

You’re so judgmental, my shrink tells me, and I cry all the way home, thinking of it.

Life equals structure plus activity.

My husband reads the book to her every night, including very very slowly the entire copyright page.

Up until the seventeenth century, it was widely believed that magnets had souls. How else could an object attract or repel?

Of course it is difficult. You are creating a creature with a soul, my friend says.

Memories are microscopic. Tiny particles that swarm together and apart. Little people, Edison called them. Entities. He had a theory about where they came from and that theory was outer space.