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A review by paperrcuts
Weather by Jenny Offill
3.0
Well, wasn't that disappointing.
"I do have one bookish superstition about my birthday. I like to see what Virginia Woolf said about an age in her diaries before I reach it. Usually it’s inspiring.
Other times…
Life is as I’ve said since I was 10, awfully interesting—if anything, quicker, keener at 44 than 24—more desperate I suppose, as the river shoots to Niagara—my new vision of death; active, positive, like all the rest, exciting; & of great importance—as an experience."
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"A new member of the meditation class tells a story about going to a monastery. He says that the atmosphere was incredible, like nothing he had ever experienced. Margot looks at him. “It is only the people who visit the monastery who feel anything. The people in the monastery feel nothing,” she says. I can’t help it. I laugh. “Sit straighter,” she says to me, and her voice is like a sharp stick."
"I do have one bookish superstition about my birthday. I like to see what Virginia Woolf said about an age in her diaries before I reach it. Usually it’s inspiring.
Other times…
Life is as I’ve said since I was 10, awfully interesting—if anything, quicker, keener at 44 than 24—more desperate I suppose, as the river shoots to Niagara—my new vision of death; active, positive, like all the rest, exciting; & of great importance—as an experience."
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"A new member of the meditation class tells a story about going to a monastery. He says that the atmosphere was incredible, like nothing he had ever experienced. Margot looks at him. “It is only the people who visit the monastery who feel anything. The people in the monastery feel nothing,” she says. I can’t help it. I laugh. “Sit straighter,” she says to me, and her voice is like a sharp stick."