|
6b394aa
|
If I could, I would work my way backward, paring away the years. I would reel my life arouond the wheel of this longing like so much loose wire.
|
|
|
Kevin Brockmeier |
|
c5ed72f
|
Sometimes one who thinks himself incomplete is merely young. --Italo Calvino
|
|
|
Kevin Brockmeier |
|
94208a1
|
The truth is he spends thirty minutes of every hour suspecting he has missed some essential clue about himself. And not only himself--he has a recurring fantasy that one night, while he was asleep, the entire world was transformed into an alien planet, but no one bothered to tell him, and he didn't have the instinct to figure it out, and here he is now on a wild new Earth, walking around like an imbecile, as if everything he knows hasn't fa..
|
|
understanding
self-knowledge
life
self
|
Kevin Brockmeier |
|
e846112
|
Luka had been the Adam to her Eve, the Friday to her Robinson Crusoe, the Master to her Margarita. None of them were stories that left room for anyone else.
|
|
|
Kevin Brockmeier |
|
19fc3a1
|
He feels the way he used to feel passing love notes to girls in elementary school. Do you like me? the notes always read. Check yes or no. But he is older now and his question is older, too, not Do you like me? but Shouldn't someone?
|
|
|
Kevin Brockmeier |