Brilliant Prose

Some People Never Grow up/ Truman Capote

    Earth and air could not be more opposite than Mildred and Holly, yet in my head they acquired a Siamese twinship, and the thread of thought that had sewn them together ran like this: the average personality reshapes frequently, every few years even our bodies undergo a complete overhaul—desirable or not, it is […]

A Slip of the Tongue/ V.N. Naipaul

A Slip of the Tongue/ V.N. Naipaul

  It sometimes happens that when you make a slip of the tongue you don’t want to correct it. You try to pretend that what you said was what you meant. And then it often happens that what you said was what you meant. And then it often happens that you begin to see that […]