HeyJaredimportant nothings
"Which of all my important nothings shall I tell you first?" - Jane Austen
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have you forgotten the look of a wild thing? (opens the original)
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I do not have a backyard, living in the city and all, but sometimes I borrow my neighbor’s. Visit it from the window in my bedroom. It is nothing like rural Pennsylvania, where I grew up, where our land stretched endlessly into the mountains.We lived at the end of a cul-de-sac; that is to say, we lived at the end of the world. Our house stood next to acres of feed corn, those hard kernels that shone like colorful little gems when the season came. Our yard was one large, low sloping hill, open-fa
slow, thoughtful recs for the end of summer (opens the original)
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is writing about real people unethical? (opens the original)
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“They don’t let you smoke at tables in New York City. Thank god the service here is terrible.”A group of American women wearing low-rise denim and ballet flats, one of whom was smacking a box of cigarettes against her palm one, two, three times. I couldn’t tell any of their ages. They talked of marriage but seemed to have no obligations besides drinking wine on a Wednesday at 1 pm. Two bottles of Riesling were open and poured into the glasses before they were finished. A woman reading a book at
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