“Meanwhile, the people around you continue to talk and act as if you were the same person as yesterday, or last night, or five minutes before, but you are really undergoing a crisis, your heart feels damaged…”
So Much Water So Close to Home, Raymond Carver (via natface)
By the time I’d read Carver I had been full out of literary academic mode. I do have an idea, however, that “So Much Water So Close To Home” must be some sort of chef d’oeuvre.