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People are afraid to merge on freeways in Los Angeles. This is the first thing I hear when I come back to the city. Blair picks me up from LAX and mutters this under her breath as she drives up the onramp. She says, "People are afraid to merge on freeways in Los Angeles." Though that sentence shouldn't bother me, it stays in my mind for an uncomfortably long time. Nothing else seems to matter. Not the fact that I'm eighteen and it's December and the ride on the plane had been rough and the couple from Santa Barbara, who were sitting across from me in first class, had gotten pretty drunk. Not the mud that had splattered on the legs of my jeans, which felt kind of cold and loose, earlier that day at an airport in New Hampshire. Not the stain on the arm of the wrinkled, damp shirt I wear, a shirt which looked fresh and clean this morning. Not the tear on the neck of my gray argyle vest, which seems vaguely more eastern than before, especially next to Blair's clean tight jeans and her pale-blue shirt. All of this seems irrelevant next to that one sentence. It seems easier to hear that people are afraid to merge than "I'm pretty sure Muriel is anorexic" or the singer on the radio crying out about magnetic waves. Nothing else seems to matter to me but those ten words. Not the warm winds, which seem to propel the car down the empty asphalt freeway, or the faded smell of marijuana which still faintly permeates Blaire's car. All it comes down to is the fact that I'm a boy coming home for a month and meeting someone whom I haven't seen for four months and people are afraid to merge.


Bret Easton Ellis


#interaction #isolation #couples

I would have been a disastrous soldier.


Max Hastings


#disastrous #i #soldier #would

It isn't that they can't see the solution. It is that they can't see the problem.


Gilbert K. Chesterton


#see #solution

When your country is in a costly war, with our soldiers sacrificing abroad and our nation facing a debt crisis at home, being asked to pay your fair share isn't class warfare - it's patriotism.


Cory Booker


#asked #being #class #class warfare #costly

I don't dictate the solos and I don't dictate the vocal harmonies.


Dan Hicks


#harmonies #i #solos #vocal

A geometry implies the heterogeneity of locus, namely that there is a locus of the Other. Regarding this locus of the Other, of one sex as Other, as absolute Other, what does the most recent development in topology allow us to posit?


Jacques Lacan


#allow #development #does #geometry #heterogeneity

Symptoms, those you believe you recognize, seem to you irrational because you take them in an isolated manner, and you want to interpret them directly.


Jacques Lacan


#believe #directly #interpret #irrational #isolated

Until four years ago, in fact, I was absolutely in love with the atom.


David R. Brower


#ago #atom #fact #four #i

I've performed solo for 20 years now, but I don't do much of it, because if you only play alone, you go crazy and out of tune and play foolish music.


Steve Lacy


#because #crazy #foolish #go #i

My mother could do absolutely anything. She was like Martha Stewart before such a thing existed.


Cheryl Ladd


#anything #before #could #existed #like






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