“We came to insist that our embarrassments and lusts were actually beautiful.” —(pg. 159) Veronica by Mary Gaitskill
On Freedom: Miranda Rush
“There’s this kind of underlying belief system within the culture that we are morally obligated to give back to what we grew inside of… to care for our civilization-mother, regardless of whether she nurtured or abused us and if we don’t, we will have failed. And the detailed collage of history and tradition amassed before us will all have been for naught. But this is not so. You can leave. I can leave. Theoretically, anyone can leave and try to fulfill the picturesque vagabond lifestyle. Freedom isn’t this mindset of a place we’re all fleeing to; it’s a nearly unobtainable moment of naivety, never to be captured, only to be held in the palm of your hand for a fleeting moment if your lucky. To be free is not to abandon home or to be forever in search of a perfect one. To be free is to forget home altogether and to forget that everything always has to come to an end. It’s only natural to fetishize the vagabond lifestyle, because it’s a lifestyle for the youth and for the heroes. Which is why I think the pursuit of true freedom is fruitless, because no one is young forever and no one is ever only a hero.”
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