GinoDecubber (-ish)
Bookish Things or Meanwhile, In A Corner of The Room
"Well, what should I be writing?
Wisdom? But I have none. Consolation? But I am inconsolable. I have no faith that is - in one of the current phrases I hate so much - 'fit for purpose'. No faith that isn't 'fit for purpose' either. But do I have any sort of faith, even a small, uneasy one, not perhaps 'fit for purpose' but a helpful guide through the moment-by-moment moments that I have left to live through? Of course not. I have only the self that I've been stuck with all my life."
from Simon Gray's "The Complete Smoking Diaries", published in 2013 by Granta Books (p.739)
Bookish Things or Meanwhile, In A Corner of The Room
"Well, what should I be writing?
Wisdom? But I have none. Consolation? But I am inconsolable. I have no faith that is - in one of the current phrases I hate so much - 'fit for purpose'. No faith that isn't 'fit for purpose' either. But do I have any sort of faith, even a small, uneasy one, not perhaps 'fit for purpose' but a helpful guide through the moment-by-moment moments that I have left to live through? Of course not. I have only the self that I've been stuck with all my life."
from Simon Gray's "The Complete Smoking Diaries", published in 2013 by Granta Books (p.739)