Umami

an entire oral mysticology

At what point, I wonder, are they going to change the symbol for saving files from a floppy disk?

black trumpets. In Spanish they’re called las trompetas de la muerte, death trumpets

What you miss are the habits, the little actions you took for granted, only to realize that they were in fact the stuff of life. Except, in a way, they also turned out not to be, because the world goes on spinning without them.

and they both laugh, and I laugh too so they think I get what they’re talking about, but also because it’s like a choir and if you don’t laugh it’s like you aren’t singing, and it you don’t sing it’s like there’s a lake in front of you and you’ve got your swimsuit on but you won’t dive in. Like Ana, who never wants to swim

Genetically is when you generally look like someone else

‘Every chance I get to sit down to eat is a special occasion,’ she used to say. ‘At least till my beeper goes.’

She refused to keep the best china for special occasions.

The more Marina knows her, the less defined she becomes

Pentimento, they call it in drawing: those strokes the artist tried to erase but which are still faintly visible.