Writing Inspiration | 22 | 06.14.17
Excerpts
Stacked in a wicker basket next to her coffee table were Rick Warren’s “The Purpose Driven Life,” People, and the latest issue of Neurology Now, a magazine for patients. Together, they summed up her struggles, for she is still fighting the meaninglessness, the isolation, and the physiology of her predicament.
from The Itch by Atul Gawande, The New Yorker
That same night, he wrote a new banner for the front door which read, May the Red Sun keep rising for ten thousand years, in calligraphy that was accomplished but empty, a fixed smile. He might as well have written Joy! on a plastic bucket.
from Do Not Say We Have Nothing by Margaret Thien
Words
susurrus: a whistling, murmuring, or rustling
purlieu: a person’s usual haunts
invidious: (of an action or situation) likely to arouse or incur resentment or anger in others; (of a comparison or distinction) unfairly discriminating or unjust
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