We may win this year. We may lose it all. It is not going as well as we thought. Posterity, anyway, does not know everything. The simplest operations of life–voting in a booth, filling out returns, remembering whether or not one has just taken a pill–are very difficult. Jim leads an exemplary life, and I can’t cook. As is clear from the parking regulations, however, there are situations in which you are not entitled to stop.
Renata Adler, Speedboat (1976)
This woman can write paragraphs like no other.