It was better to work hard and see nobody. Life, in her experience, had a kind of velvet luster. You looked at it one from prospective and all you saw was weirdness. Move your head a bit, though, and everything seemed reasonably normal. She believed she couldn’t hurt anybody as long as she was only working.

Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections

I think I’ve figured out that The Corrections makes me so angry because of how terribly shitty it makes me feel. It’s just a long narrative of shitty people doing shitty things that makes me feel like I should be projecting my shitty insecurities onto the shitty characters. You do selfish things? I do selfish things! You try to delude yourself regarding the realities of the world around you? As do I! I am not a Lambert, Franzen. Get out of my brain.

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