Our capacity to know our humiliation – wasn’t that something? Our capacity to feel stupidity – is that what saved us?
We knew – isn’t that what set us apart? We could stand the truth – about ourselves. We could look at ourselves in the mirror. A terrible sight! The worst sight of all! There we were: failures. There we were: human disasters. But we could bear that… revelation. There we were: the apes of God. But we knew we were the apes of God. We could bear that. We could see that.
And Livia could see that we saw. It set us apart for her – from the first. From when she first saw us in our failure’s corner. In our idiots’ corner. In our don’t-come-near-us corner. In our fuck-ups-and-failures corner. In our don’t-employ-us-under-any-circumstances corner.
Work in Progress 