I Don’t Want To Fade Away, I

But It Was Another Girl, Young And New To The City, Fiddling With Her Keys.

What I Suddenly Understand My Job Is To Make People Uncomfortable. + I Will Do It All My Life. ---> My Mother, Sasha Blake, Is My First Victim.

I Think Ethical Ambivalence Is A Kind Of Innoculation, A Way Of Excusing Yourself In Advance For Something You Actually Want To Do. No Offense.

Rebecca Was An Academic Star. Her New Book Was On The Phenomenon Of Word Casings, A Term She'd Invented For Words That No Longer Had Meaning Outside Quotation Marks. English Was Full Of These Empty Words--"friend" And "real" And "story" And "change"--words That Had Been Shucked Of Their Meanings And Reduced To Husks. Some, Like "identity" And "search" And "cloud," Had Clearly Been Drained Of Life By Their Web Usage. With Others, The Reasons Were More Complex; How Had "american" Become An Ironic Term? How Had "democracy" Come To Be Used In An Arch, Mocking Way?

What He Needed Was To Find Fifty More People Like Him, Who Had Stopped Being Themselves Without Realizing It.