Operating Instructions (2011)
“It was touching to see all these people who usually walk around in carefully constructed disguises, doing very impressive impersonations of busy adults, but who on the inside are secretly divas and pirates, clowns and heroes. All the stuff in their heads found its way out onto the streets today—in the market, the banks, the drugstore. There were whiskers, glitter, slapshoes, blood. My head swam with wonderful memories of treasure hoarding and gluttony. The best thing is that you really feel that fall is here. There’s a tang in the air.
Sam was very funny all afternoon, so dignified and serious. “Dignity is very important, my darling,” I told him. “Second only to kindness.” He is so focused and attentive that one expects him to nod gravely. He struggles to get his thumb into his mouth, but it’s as though his arms were in a zero-gravity atmosphere of their own; they go flying through his field of vision like unsecured things in a spaceship.
Megan took him to the park for a couple of hou...rs today, and I got a little bit of work done, taking some notes for a novel, getting down some of the raw material.MoreLess
Sam was very funny all afternoon, so dignified and serious. “Dignity is very important, my darling,” I told him. “Second only to kindness.” He is so focused and attentive that one expects him to nod gravely. He struggles to get his thumb into his mouth, but it’s as though his arms were in a zero-gravity atmosphere of their own; they go flying through his field of vision like unsecured things in a spaceship.
Megan took him to the park for a couple of hou...rs today, and I got a little bit of work done, taking some notes for a novel, getting down some of the raw material.MoreLess
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