Misanthropy Today

Worms Cyclists, as a rule, think bikers are cheating, because they have engines. Pedestrians, in turn, think cyclists are cheating; they use wheels. People in wheelchairs think pedestrians have a leg up, for obvious reasons, but pedestrians think the same thing about people in wheelchairs; they use wheels. What makes people in wheelchairs unique is that they also think cyclists and bikers are cheating. Their [...]

now, if you were teaching creative writing, he asked, what would you tell them? I’d tell them to have an unhappy love affair, hemorrhoids, bad teeth and to drink cheap wine, to keep switching the head of their bed from wall to wall and then I’d tell them to have another unhappy love affair and never to use a silk typewriter ribbon, avoid family picnics or being photographed [...]