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Apr. 1st, 2014

05:24 am - QotD

From Waiting for the Galactic Bus by Parke Godwin (1988, Doubleday, New York):

That plus the old Plattsville brainwash bullshit, Charity remembered honestly. Save yourself for marriage and marry as soon as you can, before you know anything at all, let alone how to love. By the time you do, it's worn out as the car and the furniture. "Jeezooee, I was dumb, Woody. Anything worth doing takes practice, doesn't it? Like playing the trumpet."

Sure. If you've never been bad, how do you know when you're good?"

"Or being a doctor even roller skating. But they expect us to be good at love right off."

That one true love stuff never did much but sell houses and diapers and keep dummies like me off welfare as unwed mothers. There's no more one true love than one true song to sing or dress to wear. Totally ridiculous, but so was I for buying it.

[italics in original]


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