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Book: Play It As It Lays
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Joan Didion _ Play It As It Lays
Try to think about having enough left to break a bottle over it.
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Joan Didion _ Play It As It Lays
I am what I am. To look for 'reasons' is beside the point.
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Joan Didion _ Play It As It Lays
They mentioned everything but one thing: that she had left the point in a bedroom in Encino."
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Joan Didion _ Play It As It Lays
I am not much engaged by the problems of what you might call our day but I am burdened by the particular, the mad person who writes me a letter. It is no longer necessary for them even to write me. I know when someone is thinking of me. I learn to deal with this.
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Joan Didion _ Play It As It Lays
Always when I play back my father's voice," Maria says, "it is with a professional rasp, it goes as it lays, don't do it the hard way. My father advised me that life itself was a crap game: it was one of two lessons I learned as a child. The other was that overturning a rock was apt to reveal a rattlesnake. As lessons go those two seem to hold up, but not to apply.
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Joan Didion _ Play It As It Lays
One thing in my defense, not that it matters: I know something Carter never knew, or Helene, or maybe you. I know what "nothing" means, and keep on playing. Why, BZ would say. Why not, I say.
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Joan Didion _ Play It As It Lays
In was raised to believe that what came in on the next roll would always be better than what went out on the last. I no longer believe that, but I am telling you how it was."
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Joan Didion _ Play It As It Lays
He would say something and she would say something and before either of them knew it they would be playing out a dialogue so familiar that it drained the imagination, blocked the will, allowed them to drop words and whole sentences and still arrive at the cold conclusion.
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Joan Didion _ Play It As It Lays
You talk crazy any more and I'll leave.Leave. For Christ's sake leave.She would not take her eyes from the dry wash. All right.Don't, he would say then. Don't. Why do you say those things. Why do you fight.He would sit on the bed and put his head in his hands. To find out if you're alive.
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Joan Didion _ Play It As It Lays
It had seemed a funny story as she told it, both that morning by the waterfall and later at dinner, when she repeated it to the photographer and the agency man and the fashion coordinator for the client. Maria tried now to put what happened in Encino into the same spirited perspective, but Ceci Delano's situation seemed not to apply. In the end it was just a New York story.
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Joan Didion _ Play It As It Lays
The notion of general devastation had for Maria a certain sedative effect {the rattlesnake in the playpen, that was different, that was particular, that was punitive}, suggested an instant in which all anxieties would be abruptly gratified, and between the earthquake prophecy and the marijuana and the cheerful detachment of the woman whose house was in the Tajunga Wash, she felt a kind of resigned tranquility.
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Joan Didion _ Play It As It Lays
Tell me what matters," BZ said.Nothing," Maria said.
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