Ben Fountain Quotes

Without Ever Exactly Putting His Mind To It, He's Come To Believe That Loss Is The Standard Trajectory. Something New Appears In The World-a Baby, Say, Or A Car Or A House, Or An Individual Shows Some Special Talent-with Luck And Huge Expenditures Of Soul And Effort You Might Keep The Project Stoked For A While, But Eventually, Ultimately, Its Going Down. This Is A Truth So Brutally Self-evident That He Can't Fathom Why It's Not More Widely Percieved, Hence His Contempt For The Usual Public Shock And Outrage When A Particular Situation Goes To Hell. The War Is Fucked? Well, Duh. Nine-eleven? Slow Train Coming. They Hate Our Freedoms? Yo, They Hate Our Actual Guts! Billy Suspects His Fellow Americans Secretly Know Better, But Something In The Land Is Stuck On Teenage Drama, On Extravagant Theatrics Of Ravaged Innocence And Soothing Mud Wallows Of Self-justifying Pity.

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