Joan Didion Quotes

They Live By Symbols. They Read Meaning Into The Barrage Of Spam On The Unused Computer, The Delete Key That Stops Working, The Imagined Abandonment In The Decision To Replace It. The Voice On My Answering Machine Is Still John's. The Fact That It Was His In The First Place Was Arbitrary, Having To Do With Who Was Around On The Day The Answering Machine Last Needed Programming, But If I Needed To Retape It Now I Would Do So With A Sense Of Betrayal. One Day When I Was Talking On The Telephone In His Office I Mindlessly Turned The Pages Of The Dictionary That He Had Always Left Open On The Table By The Desk. When I Realized What I Had Done I Was Stricken: What Word Had He Last Looked Up, What Had He Been Thinking? By Turning The Pages Had I Lost The Message? Or Had The Message Been Lost Before I Touched The Dictionary? Had I Refused To Hear The Message? I

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