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Marley Magaziner
Feb 2, 2011, 1:07:11 PM2/2/11
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oh hai humpers.
Remember the Humpus? I do, because I was looking at an old blog and saw the "sign up for the Humpus" spot and then tried to forget I ever saw it because everything feels like an obligation right now and nothing feels fun and it's not because it's winter although that doesn't help and it's not because I'm sleep deprived and my apartment is dirty and I have holes in my stockings and my hair isn't curly anymore and I couldn't find the 1 black sweater I wanted before I walked down an ice-covered street at 7:15 AM. Everything feels like an obligation because it is an obligation but if you get rid of all of your obligations besides the basics--make money, dress yourself, feed yourself, love your significant other, get enough sleep, try to laugh once a day--somehow you're lazy and boring and don't do anything.
So I tried to forget I JUST saw the link to sign up for the Humpus because it feels like an obligation and then I read this:
Literary fiction is character driven so literary writers have to be empathetic, have to be able to imagine themselves in other people's shoes. Empathy is different from sympathy. Conservatives can have sympathy but not empathy, empathy, the most necessary ingredient in serious literary fiction, is only found in liberals.
and I couldn't let it go. But Stephen and I have had very strange interactions lately. He's just been cool with me... maybe it's not personal, maybe he doesn't want to be friends, maybe he knows I have a secret inkling of disdain for him but it's an affectionate disdain, if that's a thing... a begrudging, eye-rolling, seriously-do-you-even-hear-yourself-talk-slash-write kind of affection. Like when you meet up with an ex-lover and realize how little you actually had in common or actually got along but at the time you felt like it was a good relationship and you were sad when it ended so as much as you think he's dumb/lame/boring you still care a little bit...maybe it's like that?
hm, maybe no ex-lover comparisons. no.
anyway. I thought I'd share with you all instead of writing back to Stephen with... what? huh? seriously?
Conservatives can't have empathy. Let's mull that one over. And maybe, just maybe, liberals should have empathy for the unable-to-experience conservatives. Wonder what would happen if we did that.
Love & happy 2011...
xo
Marley
Remember the Humpus? I do, because I was looking at an old blog and saw the "sign up for the Humpus" spot and then tried to forget I ever saw it because everything feels like an obligation right now and nothing feels fun and it's not because it's winter although that doesn't help and it's not because I'm sleep deprived and my apartment is dirty and I have holes in my stockings and my hair isn't curly anymore and I couldn't find the 1 black sweater I wanted before I walked down an ice-covered street at 7:15 AM. Everything feels like an obligation because it is an obligation but if you get rid of all of your obligations besides the basics--make money, dress yourself, feed yourself, love your significant other, get enough sleep, try to laugh once a day--somehow you're lazy and boring and don't do anything.
So I tried to forget I JUST saw the link to sign up for the Humpus because it feels like an obligation and then I read this:
Literary fiction is character driven so literary writers have to be empathetic, have to be able to imagine themselves in other people's shoes. Empathy is different from sympathy. Conservatives can have sympathy but not empathy, empathy, the most necessary ingredient in serious literary fiction, is only found in liberals.
That's why really good writers are frequently very political.
and I couldn't let it go. But Stephen and I have had very strange interactions lately. He's just been cool with me... maybe it's not personal, maybe he doesn't want to be friends, maybe he knows I have a secret inkling of disdain for him but it's an affectionate disdain, if that's a thing... a begrudging, eye-rolling, seriously-do-you-even-hear-yourself-talk-slash-write kind of affection. Like when you meet up with an ex-lover and realize how little you actually had in common or actually got along but at the time you felt like it was a good relationship and you were sad when it ended so as much as you think he's dumb/lame/boring you still care a little bit...maybe it's like that?
hm, maybe no ex-lover comparisons. no.
anyway. I thought I'd share with you all instead of writing back to Stephen with... what? huh? seriously?
Conservatives can't have empathy. Let's mull that one over. And maybe, just maybe, liberals should have empathy for the unable-to-experience conservatives. Wonder what would happen if we did that.
Love & happy 2011...
xo
Marley
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