This older woman says, “I don’t think there’s anyone who loves the library more than I do.”
Clerk says, “I don’t know, there are a lot of people that really love the library.”
“But I come here every week.”
“Oh, there are some people who come here every day.”
Startled. “Oh. Well maybe they just come to read.”
“No, they’ll come one day, check out books, and then return the books the next day to get new ones.”
“Oh. Well, who has the time for that? I’d hate to see how clean their houses are!”
Jason: I should start numbering the times that I say nice.
Jason: I wish there was an easy way to do it.
Angie: Why do you want to keep track?
Jason: Absurdity.
Angie: And what would you do with alternate spellings, like nize?
Jason: Yeah, that’s the difficulty.
Jason: I only do this to confound anyone that would try to go back and code my logs.
Jason: “Nice, okay. Wait… nize? Sigh, alright. WAIT — NIZZLE!? Fuck this. Fuck sociology. I give up. I quit.”
Angie: Haha.
El Toro
I had linner with Bharath and Martin at El Toro. Bharath told me to check out All the Sad Young Literary Men, by the n+1 founding editor Gessen. Bharath said that n+1 is anti-Eggers.
The semicolon controversy came up again, and I jokingly said, “The summer after I graduated from high school was like a semicolon, connecting my future and the past like two independent yet related clauses.”
Minutiae
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