January 2011
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“I know when I’m writing a novel, I never want to understand the character...”
– Alan Lightman in conversation with Richard Colton from “Time” in Science is Culture: Conversations at the New Intersection of Science + Society
I’ve spent the last four weeks slashing days off interminable calendars, and reading far too much about the neuroscience of identity. I’ve spent nights looking at pictures of myself that have no discernible resemblance to who I thought I was, and I now have no problem admitting that I’ve surrendered to the nebulous cloud of identity on which cognition can’t put its finger,...
“I think to write, fiction just as much as non-fiction, you have to just take for...”
– Talking to Meaghan O’Connell: Editor, Coming & Crying | Vol. 1 Brooklyn (via housingworksbookstore)
Benefits of wearing five-inch heels to work in New York: I’m almost five-four. Which makes me almost a person, especially in my office.
Drawbacks of wearing five-inch heels to work in New York: I’m fashion roadkill if I don’t get a seat on the F train right away. Pride > Fashion > Balance?
Wheel of Fortune
This morning on the F train, a man stood in front of me holding a few pieces of paper, stapled together with a receipt for $35 on top, out in the open the entire ride. It was a marriage license. Thirty-five dollars for a New Domestic Partnership fee from the Office of the City Clerk in Brooklyn, New York. As soon as I figured out what it was, and decided it was my business to know, I...
