Short FictionShe should stay here with him, unorphan him with love's unorphaning, live wise and simple in a world monstrous enough for years of whores and death, and poems of whores and death, so monstrous how could one live in it at all? One had to build shelters. One had to make pockets and live inside them. She should where there were trees. She should live where there were birds. No bird, no tree had ever made her unhappy.
But it would be like going to heaven and not finding any of your friends there.
----- from The Jewish Hunter by Lorrie Moore
I read this story last night, it's part of Moore's collection of short fiction, Like Life. It was a morose sort of love story, but very intimate. Probably one of my favorites in the book. It just seems worth thinking about.
"About HP movies and Werewolves"
It's so funny.
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An artist brings something into the world that didn't exist before, and they do it without destroying something else.
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Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint. -Mark Twain
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Bad things happening to such good people.
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Anyone who lives within his means suffers from a lack of imagination. --Oscar Wilde
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"Silence is the perfectest herald of joy. I were but little happy if I could say how much."
---Claudio, Much Ado About Nothing, Act II, scene i
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Anyone who lives within his means suffers from a lack of imagination. --Oscar Wilde
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"Silence is the perfectest herald of joy. I were but little happy if I could say how much."
---Claudio, Much Ado About Nothing, Act II, scene i
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