Friday, November 13, 2026

Erdrich wisdom / working on my thesis-free paper

yup

everyone assured me this was not true. in fact, it's the reverse, they said. real love grows slowly, it doesn't knock you outa your skull like touching a wired fence

FALSE RATHER ALERT! the dude in the book is a bit of a hot mess, but the right answer is both not rather nonethless

"Erdrich's fiction makes room for experiences whose contradictions are constitutive rather than problems."

thats☝️conferencespeak for "tells you everything except what will happen" and sometimes that's a good thing and sometimes you find that good thing during a trauma-time (which, if you're living out historical trauma, is just time)