The Frankfurt School psychoanalyst Erich Fromm advocated a 'universal subsistence guarantee' in a famous 1955 book, The Sane Society
The grass was cicatriced and shiny from the day's trample
_I always knew narrative was oppressive--narrowing things down to one or even a thousand perspectives is still an abridgment of infinity. I have real pity for fictional characters, the clueless dupes of dramatic irony--especially the female creations of male novelists, the Lolitas, Caddies, Bovarie…
The crowd picked up again. She'd missed her window. I did this for you, she should have said, and if you're not enjoying yourselves, it's because you don't know how hard this was.