Will Scarlett
Practitioner of three Ps: publishing, publicity, and pizza-advocate. Sometimes, together in conjunction.
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From Marriage is watching someone and having someone watch you. by W. W. Norton
…yard at midnight, pointed through the kitchen window while they make a school lunch for their kids. They want someone to just notice, Jeff said. He said that’s what marriage is for. Otherwise, he said, honest to God, we’re all just like penguins at the North Pole, doing it all for no real reason.
From Marriage is watching someone and having someone watch you. by W. W. Norton
, he sa…ve you is the sense that your life is witnessed by another person. A kind of validation, Jeff said. That’s it, he said, and it’s plenty. If you have that, you have a lot. You have everything. But here’s the thing, Jeff said. People don’t like being watched. They resent it. Jeff said that he…