“Rosiness is not a worse windowpane than gloomy gray when viewing the world”- Grace Paley
I recently dusted off my copy of the collected stories of grace paley . she was a pacifist, an anarchist, and an all-around rabble-rouser, whose activism grew more energized with age. Ive only read the first few stories, but already I am amazed by how she could craft a bizarre and intriguing tale out of a dirty dish rag, or an old woman's memories of youth. she was a master of developing a plot around the lassitudes of habit and domestication. Yet the gloom and doom of every story has an element of magical realism. In one of the stories, a divorced couple have a peculiar encounter in the ex-wife's new apartment, in which she is revealed as a two-timer and he is revealed as a misanthrope obsessed with his biceps. When they depart from their meeting, he cartwheels down the street, into the sunshine.
bizarre! i love it!
speaking of bizarre, im not sure what is strangest about this story from sports illustrated ... the fact that an Oklahoma football fan tried to castrate a Texas football fan, or the fact that both of them had their respective team fight songs "programmed" into their car horns. i need to save this story for one of my future short stories. too weird to make up!
yoga was a disappointment today, but my turkey and avodaco sandwich at sweetish hill was not.
p.s. who let peter gabriel into the ACL fest?
2 comments:
Oh my gosh firstly! I want to read everything you read and talk about it because you always find the coolest stuff. Second- yoga > football. always. I'm taking yoga too! down-dog is my favorite. ahaha. Hopefully I may be up in Austin for a day this weekend (its a three-day weekend.. "three-day weekend" is an example of middle-school colloquialism i make an effort to use in my daily vocabulary). I believe I have your phone number in peggy's phone, which is always handy to me. I will let your know! ps. that was perhaps the warmest writing i've ever seen in regards to middle schoolers, and walking 20 miles around a city for that matter, that i have ever seen! Kristin please lets drink black coffee, eat tacos and talk about anarchism! luv, caroline
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