Raymond Z
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Those parties in my twenties were rarely as good as I remember them being; the 1970s wasn’t a smarter or sexier or more hopeful decade than this one. Most conversations pits are ugly, and most parties are awkward and boring. But everything that leaps out of reach is perfectible, because it is not ourselves. The conversation pit is everything I can’t access. It is every story we tell each other about “the after times,” about an idealized future that is unlikely ever to arrive. If only I could reach that place— that past, that future, that imagined security— everything would be fixed.
the conversation pit - by Helena Fitzgerald - GriefbaconBut the ‘70s in my mind is a conversation pit; the ‘70s is a party.
the conversation pit - by Helena Fitzgerald - GriefbaconIf only we could get back to a place before ourselves, we could shake free of the things that obligate us, that make us petty and small and unkind.
the conversation pit - by Helena Fitzgerald - GriefbaconThe conversation pit is a further interior space within an interior space.
the conversation pit - by Helena Fitzgerald - GriefbaconThe conversation pit is a further interior space within an interior space.
the conversation pit - by Helena Fitzgerald - Griefbacon