Das mine!' protested Ava, Bennie's daughter, affirming Alex's recent theory that language acquisition involved a phase of speaking German. She snatched a plastic skillet away from his own daughter, Cara-Ann, who lurched after it, roaring, 'Mine pot! Mine pot!
Jennifer EganTags: children parenting daughters linguistics german language-acquisition
So this is it ⎯ what cost me all that time. A man who turned out to be old, a house that turned out to be empty.
Jennifer EganTags: death aging wasting-time getting-old getting-older
I don't know what happened to me," he said, shaking his head. "I honestly don't." ...
"You grew up, Alex.
Time's a goon right? Isn't that the expression?
Jennifer EganTags: time expression goon
Suddenly I'm scared.
That the solar panels were a time machine.
That I'm a grown-up woman coming back to this place after many years.
That my parents are gone, and our house isn't ours anymore.
It's a broken down ruin with no one in it.
Living here all together was so sweet.
Even when we fought.
It felt like it would never end.
I'll always miss it.
I looked down at the city. Its extravagance felt wasteful, like gushing oil or some other precious thing Bennie was hoarding for himself, using it up so no one else could get any. I thought: if I had a view like this to look down on every day, I would have the energy and inspiration to conquer the world. The trouble is, when you most need such a view, no one gives it to you.
Jennifer EganPower is like that; everyone feels it at once.
Jennifer EganToo Clear, too clean. The problem was precision, perfection; the problem was "digitization" which sucked the life out of everything that got smeared through its microscopic mesh. Film, photography, music: dead. "An aesthetic holocaust!
Jennifer EganTags: art artists modernism digitalization
That's factually crazy...
Jennifer Egan...our familiar features rinsed in weird adulthood.
Jennifer EganTags: aging
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