Hope?

- So... I gather you've read The Book?

- Yes, it was incredible!

...

- Oh, by the way, my favorite scene? But I don't think of you.

She's read it.

She remembers it.

She understood it.

And for a brief moment, you feel like you're in the right world, a world of people who know.

It hurts.

In other news, a friend pointed out, a valid reason to be taking drugs is the fact that the state banned them in the first place.

Not by some stupid esprit de contradiction , but because the ban reveals the kind of shitty world we're living, the kind of world that needs escaping from.

2010-05-22