Ambrosine Aureliano grew up being told that everyone had enough material inside of them to write at least one book. She steadfastly refused to believe such an outlandish claim beca...показать большеAmbrosine Aureliano grew up being told that everyone had enough material inside of them to write at least one book. She steadfastly refused to believe such an outlandish claim because she knew perfectly well that she had-at most-enough material to fill a fortune cookie wrapper.
Applying herself diligently, she was dismayed to realize that she stood little future as an aphorist. Therefore, she gave herself permission to ramble on and on until her piffle filled whole pages and constituted the length of a novel.
Once finished, she apprehended the fact that what had taken her reams of words to describe, La Rochefoucauld had summed up in one sentence: “Qui vit sans folie n’est pas si sage qu’il croit.” She leads a quiet life now, bolstered by cups of rose hips tea and cake.показать меньше