At the Bottom of Everything (2013)
“That’s sometimes how I think about what happened—Mira was the unlucky person on the rim of the volcano at the moment when Thomas and I needed a way to make our bad luck stop.
But that makes it sound deliberate, when of course deliberate is the one thing it wasn’t. There’s a part of me, though, the part that takes over when I’m falling asleep, say, or waiting for a plane to take off with my forehead against the window, where the distinction between deliberate and accidental seems about as formid...able as rice paper. Anyway: Our friendship, by the time we were a year into high school, was in definite trouble. Some of this may have had to do with my having made the baseball team, which had pulled me off toward upperclassmen, guys more like my half brother than like Thomas, who took me to parties and got me drunk and turned me, for a few hours a week at least, into exactly the sort of person Thomas couldn’t stand. And some of this, or maybe just another way of looking at the same part of it, was that Thomas had started to become puritanical.MoreLess
But that makes it sound deliberate, when of course deliberate is the one thing it wasn’t. There’s a part of me, though, the part that takes over when I’m falling asleep, say, or waiting for a plane to take off with my forehead against the window, where the distinction between deliberate and accidental seems about as formid...able as rice paper. Anyway: Our friendship, by the time we were a year into high school, was in definite trouble. Some of this may have had to do with my having made the baseball team, which had pulled me off toward upperclassmen, guys more like my half brother than like Thomas, who took me to parties and got me drunk and turned me, for a few hours a week at least, into exactly the sort of person Thomas couldn’t stand. And some of this, or maybe just another way of looking at the same part of it, was that Thomas had started to become puritanical.MoreLess
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