Pond

[ateolf]

Yesterday I finished reading The Reivers by William Faulkner. It was good. The writing wasn't Faulkner at his most Faulkner but it was still quite Faulkner and good (so relatively light for him, but still good). Some of the characters were a bit stock and it wasn't perfect, but I enjoyed it. I took a short walk around the pond yesterday with Mary Beth in the very still and quiet park and we saw some turtle heads as usual. I'm a bit disappointed in Memphis's voting choice yesterday. It's also a bit surreal seeing people talk about Paul Young in terms of "change" as he's absolutely the most in line with Strickland and the developers that are currently bringing our city down. I'd like to be proven wrong though, so we'll see.

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[ifjuly]

don't know this city will ever get it in time, hope so but don't know. continues to be one of the most predictably politically penny-wise and pound-foolish spots i've been, per Amy's whole explanation before leaving.

and, your trying to make me feel better about the spinosa-kiel thing i appreciate, but it also doesn't actually change the (very very repetitive) fact, and the reasons you cite for it--not as viscerally terrifying maybe but perhaps even more powerful in a macro lasting way--are another thing that feels intractable despite being obviously destructive.

is it ever going to really get better solidly, or are we all (whether being ignorantly-reactively charlataned into it and bad at effective macromath, or the above charlatans too, buying into their own perspective bullshit in a more awful insidious way) just going to continue to confuse maps with territories until there is no more territory at all.