But my interest is in how these marks that I am scratching on this page can mean anything at all. If they can have meaning, then life can have meanin… - Percival Everett

Why are people so fucked up?” I asked
“Maybe you do need college, Poiter,” Everett said. “You want to know why people are so fucked up? Son, that’s about the only question I can answer with even a small measure of authority. It’s because they’re people. People, my friend, are worse than anybody.

Linda Mallory is the postmodern fuck.

It's incredible that a sentence is ever understood. Mere sounds strung together by some agent attempting to mean some thing but the meaning need not, and does not, confine itself to that intention.