by Joan Didion
“I said that while it was true that the telling of a life tended to falsify it, gave it a form it did not intrinsically possess, this was just a fact of writing things down, something we all accepted. // I realized as I was saying this that I no longer did.” p. 74
p. 141 ‘kids playing by stream’
“The lesson would have been that no one else will ever view our lives exactly as we do” p. 142
“Alcestis, back from the tunnel and half in love with death” p. 151