She did not move. And about her the entire house, the street, seemed to encourage her, seemed to consider this motionlessness natural.
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She did not move. And about her the entire house, the street, seemed to encourage her, seemed to consider this motionlessness natural.
“But why? Sandro asked much later, after Roberto had left for his university studies. Because you are going to be an artist, his father said. And it was important to establish that you aren’t suited to anything else. That’s what artists are, his father said, those who are useless for anything else. That might seem like an insult, he said, but it wasn’t, and someday Sandro would understand.”
Rachel Kushner | The Flamethrowers