If you spent much of your life building an atomic bomb, wouldn’t you really really want to test it out?
I will convince people to have sex with us in order to unlock an all-powerful inner spirit.
I don’t even bother being right anymore. I used to be right all the time and where has it gotten me?
Over the course of its lifetime, then, this car managed to incur for us a great deal of stress and frustration, but in a way, this is the role of the car: it’s an expensive tool that we are married to. This relationship is duplicated around the country by millions of people, who are forced to dump money into an object that will at some mysterious future point become totally unreliable.
I’m starting a new section here at the Schreibmaschine, in which I’d like to document those crucial conversation-killing statements, made by me or someone else, in order to explore just what went wrong…
Conversation-Ending Comments, Topic: Weather
In Moscow, people sell ice cream from a table!