80% of you said Big Ideas jump-start your engine, just like me.
20% of said Juicy Memories inspire you, not like me.
But many of you left comments saying both were essential, and I bow to your wisdom. Nothing in life is ever as bisected and artificial as poll answers.
It reminds me of those notes from high school:
Do you like me? Check yes or no.
Right.
How about: I like you enough to say HEY to you every single day, but not enough to hook up with you.
Or: I hate you, but I can't say that because you would take that as a sign that I care, so I'll just stick this note in the glove compartment with all your other sick notes.
Or: OMG! OMG! I LOVE everything about you! But I'm going to check No.
Which makes me think that literature is a complicated answer to a simple question.
Duckings: Make way or not?
Messenger: Am I or not?
Tuck: Everlasting or not?
Chinese: American or not?
Octavian: Traitor or not?
::rolling on floor::
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I need to finish my novel so I can be funny and clever again -- I almost said "like you," but that would be asking for a lot.
The hardest part of answering the "Do you like me" note from junior high was... I didn't know who it was from or who to return it to or how! It showed up in my locker one morning and all day I'm like a blind man in a round room looking for a corner.
ReplyDeleteSince our answers are rarely that black-and-white I guess my only response is "Yes and No and Maybe," whoever you are.
Turning the titles into questions totally gets to their themes. (Well, maybe not for the ducks; definitely for Octavian, though.) WHY didn't I figure this out in college?
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