From Joan Didion in Slouching Towards Bethlehem (more excerpts from Maria Popova, here). I always had trouble distinguishing between what happened and what merely might have happened, but I remain unconvinced that the distinction, for my purposes, matters. …. How it felt to me: that is getting closer to the truth about a notebook. IContinue reading “FIVE HUNDRED AND THIRTY”
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FOUR HUNDRED AND EIGHTY NINE
Joan Didion on self-respect in Vogue (also in Slouching Towards Bethlehem). “Although to be driven back upon oneself is an uneasy affair at best, rather like trying to cross a border with borrowed credentials, it seems to me now the one condition necessary to the beginnings of real self-respect. Most of our platitudes notwithstanding, self-deceptionContinue reading “FOUR HUNDRED AND EIGHTY NINE”
TWO HUNDRED AND SEVENTY EIGHT
Happy birthday Joan Didion, via Maria Popova. Re-reading and reflecting on Didion here makes me think about my parents, who always insisted on this kind of self-respect and discipline. As an adult, I am incredibly grateful that I can call upon that practice, and feel a lot of sadness for those who never learned it. The dismal fact isContinue reading “TWO HUNDRED AND SEVENTY EIGHT”
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