Dance Dance Dance

then pointed the car out into the snow-swept no-man's-land

I felt like we were practicing a Beginning English language drill

It seemed unreasonable, unfair, that a woman so young and beautiful should be so exhausted. Of course, it was neither unreasonable nor unfair. Exhaustion pays no mind to age or beauty. Like rain and earthquakes and hail and floods

Exhaustion pays no mind to age or beauty. Like rain and earthquakes and hail and floods

You live by yourself for a stretch of time and you get to staring at different objects. Sometimes you talk to yourself. You take meals in crowded joints. You develop an intimate relationship with your used Subaru. You slowly but surely become a has-been

It wasn't that I stubbornly resisted information, I simply had no desire to know anything. Even so, I knew things were happening. The world didn't stop. I could feel it in my skin, even sitting alone in my apartment. Though little did it compel me to show interest. It was like a silent breath of air, breezing past me

People have their own reasons for dying. It might look simple, but it never is. It’s just like a root. What’s above ground is only a small part of it. But if you start pulling, it keeps coming and coming. The human mind dwells deep in darkness. Only the person himself knows the real reason, and maybe not even then.”

Things can work out. And if they don't, well, you can deal with that when the time comes. Get a little older, you'll fall in love. You'll buy brassieres. The whole way you look at the world will change

Like if you love somebody, the love is always shifting or wavering. It's always questioning or inflating or disappear­ing or denying or hurting. And the thing is, you can't do anything about it, you can't control it.

Well now, I thought, what do I do today?

As usual, there wasn't anything to do.