Lorrie Moore: "Yang perlu diingat tentang hubungan cinta, "kata S...

"Yang perlu diingat tentang hubungan cinta, "kata Simone," adalah bahwa mereka semua seperti memiliki rakun di cerobongmu. "... Kadang-kadang kita memiliki rakun di cerobong kita," jelas Simone. Dan suatu kali kami mencoba menghisapnya. Kami menyalakan api, tahu mereka ada di sana, tetapi kami berharap asap akan menyebabkan mereka berlari keluar dan tidak pernah kembali. Sebaliknya, mereka terbakar dan datang menabrak ruang tamu kami, semuanya hangus dan terbakar dan berlari dengan gila sampai mereka jatuh mati. "Simone menelan anggur." Urusan cinta seperti itu, "katanya." Mereka semua seperti itu."

--- Lorrie Moore

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The thing to remember about love affairs," says Simone, "is that they are all like having raccoons in your chimney." ... We have raccoons sometimes in our chimney," explains Simone. And once we tried to smoke them out. We lit a fire, knowing they were there, but we hoped the smoke would cause them to scurry out the top and never come back. Instead, they caught on fire and came crashing down into our living room, all charred and in flames and running madly around until they dropped dead." Simone swallows some wine. "Love affairs are like that," she says. "They are all like that.