story: “Loulou; or, the Domestic Life of the Language”
author: Margaret Atwood
year: 1986
where: in the taxi, on the way to work
note: If I ever login to Facebook, I see these advertisements for Atwood’s online Masterclass and each time, it makes me want to read more of her fiction.
a line: “’Loulou thinks to reify means to make real,’ says Phil to everyone, when he’s hung up the phone. They’re always talking about her in the third person like that, telling each other what she thinks. The truth is that she’s never heard that word before in her life.”
samantha Neugebauer 