Essay on Antilamentation, Google translation
by Dorianne Laux on Sunday, August 14, 2011 at 10:19pm
Yes, I once owned a pair of flaming red shoes, a clearance sale bargains, cheap, but unfortunately a half size too small. I also had them in a rendez-vous to exist and it was not self-explanatory. Although I have never befall abklauben greasy onion rings from a dirty restaurant floor to have, but once I was almost in despair when I had to clean than neuzehnjähriges au pair in the heart of Paris completely filthy kitchen of Madame Agnes, while those that a real lady world - Gauloises smoking, drinking whiskey - in the bedroom next door with one of their most attractive young lovers amused.
To survive, said Dorianne Laux, and in fact I've even survived the fiasco of my Paris this autumn. With chocolate, as blackboard, and the most depressing of all songs from Cohen's extensive record collection of the hostess, Famous Blue Raincoat, I heard again and again and myself in my misery felt very proud of himself after all. Worse to come could not.
And of course, but it came.
First meeting, where I always seemed much too early at the appointed place, and I tumbled regularly the false statements from the mouth.Gone wrong tests, botched interviews, subpoenas concerned with the teachers my daughter and eloquent refusals so-called "reputable" publishers. Like a worm feel and know it but that one is not, indeed humanly can be none, because one's own situation so good about tears and analyze perfectly capable of is: How far have you come on the back of each single fault.
In inimitable style makes pragmatic Antilamentation courage to himself and his wry take on life, fate like a Buster Keaton film a look. A little bit ridiculous, a little more serious, grim, and a trace at the right moment but not access to life-saving irony miss. Just human. And solidarity in a way.
For a pair of red shoes fire had probably at some point every woman once in her closet.