The Road / Cormac McCarthy

Just remember that the things you put into your head are there forever, he said. You might want to think about that.
You forget some things, don't you?
Yes. You forget what you want to remember and you remember what you want to forget.
Cormac McCarthy, The Road
"To live a creative life we must lose our fear of being wrong." Joseph Chilton Pearce

"If you press me to tell why I loved him, I feel that this cannot be expressed,
except by answering: Because it was he, because it was I."
Michel de Montaigne, "Of Friendship"

Sunday, April 18, 2010

The Room in the Attic

He himself would love to have a nice little breakdown, to use that word, though frankly he'd prefer to call it a fix-up, but he suffered from an embarrassing case of perfect health, he couldn't even manage to catch a cold, something must be wrong with him. --From Steven Millhauser's "The Room in the Attic"

My brother used to be very sick once. Had fevers and I couldn't see him for a while. He got better, eventually, but I wondered why I was too healthy. Had perfect memory of names, faces, time, places. But it's funny one day during spring break I woke up thinking: "It would be so weird if you wake up one day and think you skipped a day. Either you overslept or just don't remember." Common symptoms of junioritis.
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