allthelonelyplaces:I tell you this not as aimless revelation but because I want you to know, as you
allthelonelyplaces:I tell you this not as aimless revelation but because I want you to know, as you read me, precisely who I am and where I am and what is on my mind. I want you to understand exactly what you are getting: you are getting a woman who for some time now has felt radically separated from most of the ideas that seem to interest people. You are getting a woman who somewhere along the line misplaced whatever slight faith she ever had in the social contract, in the whole grand pattern of human endeavor. - Joan Didion: The Center Will Not Hold (2017) -- source link
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