alternative to the reckless path

"Alternative to the Reckless Path," September 18, 2022 (#261)

title from The Price of Inequality: How Today's Divided Society Endangers Our Future by Joseph E. Stiglitz (2012)

Misery by Stephen King (1987)

Purity by Jonathan Franzen (2015)

Alternative to the Reckless Path

Words began to catch up to normal cadence and to fill with

a discontinuity between Eastern flatness and Western

deep-red glints like dying embers flowing over her shoulders in

her comments on her younger rival’s work. She learned exactly

to figure out that she’d slapped herself. Good and hard, from the

fact of the hotel room. To have her revenge on the indifferent

samples I brought home off and on while I was working; you

took her shoes off at the door and asked me to do the same

direction from which she had come running. Just before

a person like you couldn’t have existed in that country,

he could remain in an angle of shadow and still peek out.

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