Ignition

Frank McCourt wrote that F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote that there are no second acts in American lives. The former followed this by suggesting that the latter did not live long enough to have one. As of this recording, I’m four years shy of forty-four, the age where the latter of the two aforementioned authors drank himself to death. I am already a master of second acts, as I am always and forever in one. Italo Svevo wrote a book about a man called “Zeno,” who becomes addicted to giving up smoking. The feeling of freshness and invigoration accompanied by the naivety of an untested resolution are intoxicating to anyone who knows them. Mark Twain once wrote that giving up smoking was the easiest thing in the world and that he did it all the time. He also wrote that the difference between reality and fiction is that, in order to be believed, fiction must follow certain rules. Reality because it is what it is, observes no such niceties. On stories, whether they’re true or false, Margaret Atwoo