Mary Jane: A Novel

Al Green, Parliament, the Meters, the Isley Brothers, Sly and the Family Stone, Labelle, and Stevie Wonder.

anthropomorphically.”

“Part of being alive is figuring out the balance between what you want, what you need, and what you have with what you don’t want, don’t need, and don’t have. I mean, Jimmy, man, you are so not alone here.

The Diary of Anaïs Nin—five

aberration

It had never before occurred to me that sometimes dishes weren’t just dishes, that things could represent ideas in more powerful ways than the ideas themselves.