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A Softer Snippet

Joey Comeau, who writes A Softer World and who lives in Halifax, Nova Scotia (a place I hear good things about constantly), also has a blog, which is called Overqualified, and which is beautiful and funny and often meaningful. He has also just released a new book of short stories called It’s too late to say I’m sorry.

Here’s a snippet from his most recent OQ entry:

Late at night, drunk, our language changes. Our adjectives shift, becoming stronger, more romantic. Our verbs become more clear, more specific, occasionally more desperate. They change even when we’re talking of simple things, like eating an apple if you will excuse my example. In the day we simply eat an apple, but late at night, while my wife sleeps, I tell another woman how I am piercing the apple with my teeth. Then I am cutting flesh from it and laying those pieces on my tongue. I am imagining that its flavors are hers.