“You know what truth is? [...] It's some crazy thing my neighbor believes. If I want to make friends with him, I ask him what he believes. He tells me, and I say, "Yeah, yeah - ain't it the truth?” ― Kurt Vonnegut, Breakfast of Champions // I highlighted, copied and pasted the list. Dutifully. These 8 things seemed important. I asked a question of the person who shared them for clarification. “To whom are we writing for?” I didn’t wait for the answer. A week or so after first seeing them I highlighted, copied, and pasted again. This time with an anecdote of a class I took in the second to last semester of my illustrious collegiate career. The halls bulging from my constant residence. The old professor a World War Two medic with the author who both survived and had a life in English, my professor as a crusty old teacher of hard boiled fiction, the brutal crime form, the other as a world renowned author, Kurt Vonnegut.
Gotta work the process!! And you’re ahead of me—don’t think I ever read any Vonnegut.