Before And After... I Heard A Thousand

Ordinarily, Of Course, I Thought It Best To Remain Inconspicuous, But The Gesture Had A Certain Irresistable Theatricaility, And An Inevitablility. Sometimes You Can Feel The Pull Of What Other People Want From You, And You Sacrifice Yourself, You Risk Seeming Odd Or Sunsavory, To Keep Them Entertained.

I Heard Gillian Say, With A Laugh, At This Point, Does Anyone Expect The Liberals Not To Be Total Hypocrites? She Was Oblivious To The Possibility That Perhaps Not Everyone Present Shared Her Views, And I Thought, You're Sixteen. How Can You Already Be A Republican?

She Has Always Been A Bystander In Family Destruction, Never Realizing She Herself Possessed The Capacity To Inflict It.

I Had The Fleeting Thought Then That We Are Each Of Us Pathetic In One Way Or Another, And The Trick Is To Marry A Person Whose Patheticness You Can Tolerate.

I Feel Like A Lot Of Life Is Distasteful And Embarrassing. And You Just Push Through It. You Fix What You Can, And You Let Time Pass.