an impressionable little thing

"An Impressionable Little Thing," April 26, 2022 (#116)

title from "The Yellow Wallpaper" by Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1892)

Between Here and the Yellow Sea by Nic Pizzolatto (2006)

Between Parentheses: Essays, Articles and Speeches by Roberto Bolaño (1998-2003)

Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates (2015)

An Impressionable Little Thing

A deep, cheery voice came over the speakers and spoke in numbers

I’ve just read, or reread, or randomly flipped through, the way you

knew that he had chafed against the schools, that he had almost been

getting a bottle and sitting in his truck, remembering her loudly

deserving of him, even if only because of the pure souls, the idiot.

I lay down in the stockroom, because I had no idea what else to do

about that as he finally got out of bed. He waited until he heard the

skull barely covered by a thin layer of skin, but then I got used to

a philosophy of the disembodied, of a people who control nothing, who

realized there was little chance of ever catching someone else using

a coward when he saw one. He held a similarly low opinion of other

jargon, violence to language, which vanishes the men who engineered the

resources to complete the castle’s construction. While the man with

a backdrop that resembles certain paintings by Brueghel or an alien

walked off into the wide open night. And watching him walk away, I felt.

From here.

The Procession to Cavalry by Pieter Brueghel (1564)

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