The very idea of perfect happiness. Who wouldn’t be happy about the proposition that happiness can be perfect?
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The Pulitzer Prize–winning author of the new novel Day on Italian sneakers, Virginia Woolf, and the end of the world.
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Forbearance with my chronic tardiness.
The fact that, until recently, “the end of the world” would have seemed pretentious and evasive, and now seems like the only possible answer.
I’m chronically late. It’s magical thinking: I actually believe I can take a shower and get dressed in three minutes, that the train will be pulling into the station the moment I arrive….
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