Friday, March 10, 2006

Art imitates life

Sometimes a little too keenly for comfort. Last night I placed a copy of Joan Didion's The Year of Magical Thinking on my bedboard for an evening someday when I might actually have time to read. Below the back-cover photo circa 1976, my eye drifted to three stark lines that hit me with blunt force:

Life changes fast.
Life changes in the instant.
You sit down to dinner and life as you know it ends.

When that happens to someone you know, you don't really expect to see it quite so literally captured in print.

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