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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