Clearance
Dec 19, 2011
It hit me today that I’m in a profession where very few people are even allowed to read what you write. Ach.
#ows
Dec 5, 2011
“Novels are such mysterious and amorphous and tender things. And here we are with our crash helmets on, with concertina wire all around us.”
– Arundhati Roy, Nov 30 2011.
Lymph
Dec 3, 2011
“It reminds me that I am glad to have washed my hands of my sister Ifat’s death and can think of her now as a house I once rented but which is presently inhabited by I do not know. I miss her body, of course, and how tall she was, with the skull of a leopard and the manner of a hawk. But that’s aesthetic, and aside from it, Ifat is just a repository of anecdotes for me, something I carry around without noticing, like lymph.”
– Sara Suleri, Meatless Days (1987)