„They were in a hotel room of such monumental ugliness it seemed an achievement in its own right.“
© 2018 Olivia Laing, Crudo.
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Liars
„The problem, she knew, she’d actually written it down, was that she liked liars and evasive people, she liked seeing what they’d say, she liked being continually shocked surprised disappointed by the way they were never where she thought they’d be, it was the same exactly as how she felt watching a lizard vanish into a previously invisible crack or cranny, something in her applauded any instinct for freedom, however personally inconvenient to her.“
© 2018 Olivia Laing, Crudo.
Problem with history
„She was trying to remember the 1980s, specifically 1987. What did people know, what were they ignorant of? This was the problem with history, it was too easy to provide the furnishings but forget the attitudes, the way you became a different person according to what knowledge was available, what experiences were fresh and what had not yet arisen in a personal or global frame.“
© 2018 Olivia Laing, Crudo.
Writer's Debris 