Sublime

But I am talking in hypotheticals: the truth is that not enough carriers of this virus have ever been willing to risk the potential loss of any aspect of their social capital to find out what kind of America might lie on the other side of segregation. They are very happy to “blackout” their social media for a day, to read all-black books, and “educ

I am not able, and do not want, completely to abandon the world view that I acquired in childhood. So long as I remain alive and well I shall continue to feel strongly about prose style, to love the surface of the earth, and to take a pleasure in solid objects and scraps of useless information. It is no use trying to suppress that side of myself. T

She had untapped things inside her.

You can have everything a person could possibly need by the standards of our culture—but those standards can badly misjudge what a human actually needs in order to have a good or even a tolerable life.

rhapsodizing

I often wondered: is it some kind of a trade-off? Do others have to lose so we can win?

Our societies are very interested in winners but don’t really know what to do about losers – of which there are always, by definition, a far greater number.

me. I felt a wonderful lightness in my body, a ridiculous happiness, it seemed to come from nowhere. I’d lost my job, a certain version of my life, my privacy, yet all these things felt small and petty next to this

And in spite of all of this, ‘fat’ has become shorthand for ‘bad’. And with the shrinking of that word, so fat people are expected to shrink themselves.