(The Smiths - Girlfriend in a Coma)
"How about this: pretend Mr. Pumpkin there is the one person in the world who frightens you the most, who wants to destroy you, okay? Eat you up." I could just kick myself as I say this, but I'm too late. Jasmine's strong features buckle with fright and my fingers pushes the shutter button and a portrait of Jasmine is created: a portrait that will be seen by her grandchildren and the one that they will remember her by -- a portrait of Jasmine, facing the world as she does at this point in her life, utterfly frightened by a monster entirely of her own carving.
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spooky...i posted an excerpt from the newest book in my blog, then click over to read yours and...look at that!
we all create our own monsters. as humans, i think most of us are naturally inclined to blame others for our problems. we are too afraid to scratch below the surface and investigate the ways in which we engage in self-fulfilling prophecy.
coupland's books are so infinitely readable, over and over and over again. mine are all pretty thumbed-through, but i think "shampoo planet" and "microserfs" are in the worst shape, having each had separate encounters with a spilled big gulp...
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