reading lydia davis

"Wife one swallows food, swallows pain, swallows food again." (Wife One in Country)

"I am filled that day with vile or evil feelings--ill will toward one I think I should love, ill will toward myself, and discouragement over the work I think I should be doing. I look out the window of my borrowed house, out the narrow window of the smallest room. Suddenly there it is, my own spirit: an old white dog with bowed legs and swaying head starting around the corner of the porch with one mad, cataract-filled eye." (Examples of Confusion)