marcus

Questions we did not ask, because Ovid already asked them so well: In what way would commitment to each other differ from a commitment against our own solitude? In what way would our daily compromises, our small shifts against our own nature, build into bulldogs of resentment that we would soon unleash upon each other? In what would our displays of affection toward each other differ from advertisements of what we most wanted done to ourselves? (Ben Marcus, "Children, Cover Your Eyes," reprinted in Harper's Magazine, February 2005, p. 26)