A Passage That I Stole

Work is still wild, but I was reminded just now of why my Patréon subscription to Who? Weekly has survived my attempting to save for a house deposit cull of my annual and monthly payments. Bobby posted this quote from Catherine Lacey’s Nobody Is Ever Missing, and it’s just shot to the top of my to-read list:

Some people make us feel more human and some people make us feel less human and that is a fact as much as gravity is a fact and maybe there are ways to prove it, but the proof of it matters less that the existence of it--how a stranger can show up and look at you and make you make more sense to yourself and the world, even  if that sense is extremely fragile and only comes around occasionally and is prone to wander or fade--what matters is that sometimes sense is made between two people and I don't know if it's random or there is any kind of order to it, what combinations of people work the best and why and how do we find these people and how do we keep these people around, and I don't know if it's chaos or not chaos but it feels like chaos to me so I suppose it is.

In other news, I’m going home to Ireland for a work trip next week that I’ve extended to include some personal time. These are the books I’m bringing with me:

1. Cleopatra and Frankenstein by Coco Mellors (unless I finish it before I go!)

2. A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara

3. Ghost Lover by Lisa Taddeo

See you on the other side!