ineess
17.08.04, 11:10
"Today is September 13, 2003. Saturday night at the cusp of autumn. I want
you to find this in a few years when you're stuck writing something else.
You've got a couple hundred words but they don't feel right, don't seem to be
leading anywhere. In a fit of desperation, you start skimming through old
stuff lying around on your hard drive, hoping to pick up a trick you've
forgotten or a starting place. Even just to remember what it feels like to
close your eyes and pound out the rest of sentences, to write something
genuinely good, something you're happy with. "
...
"The nineties were full of expectation. Commercials promised us the ability
to buy a way into the future itself, an escape capsule from all the
humiliation and pain of the twentieth century we spent so many years reading
about in school. Nowadays commercials promise us the ability to save money,
and as such, are totally boring.
We are deflated, in a word. All my friends have finally settled into jobs and
apartments, but it's like all we've found is a safe hiding place. We're grown-
up now, but we haven't figured anything out."
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