LUB DUB, LUB DUB

How do trite things get to be trite? Why is the truth usually not just un- but anti-interesting?

--DFW, Infinite Jest


Feeling not just un- but anti-interesting today. Gotta shake things up, gotta let go.

But she was seventeen now and not actually dumb. She knew that you could love somebody more than anything and still not love the person all that much, if you were busy with other things.

--Jonathan Franzen, Freedom