bag lady memoirs

i'm very dumb. This upsets me.

It is an error, a nonsensical act of violence, to concentrate on the here and now with the conviction of thus grasping the essential. What matters is to move surely and calmly, with the appropriate humour and the appropriate melancholy in the temporally and spatially internal landscape that we are.

—Pascal Mercier against “living in the here and now”. In Kinokuniya making inappropriate happy noises at random shelves.

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