Watch some kids, watch them play. You’ll see they’re just little adults, only they don’t know all the rules and tricks yet.
I was feeling overwhelmed. Meeting Bianca, dancing, rejection by Bianca, social overload, discussion of personal matters—now, just when I thought the ordeal was over, Rosie seemed to be proposing more...
To the world’s most perfect woman.’ It was lucky my father was not present. Perfect is an absolute that cannot be modified, like unique or pregnant. My love for Rosie was so powerful that it had cause...
You want a beer? she said. A beer! At 3:01 a.m. Ridiculous. Yes, please.
There were approximately twenty-five people milling around the door and the front of the classroom, but I immediately recognised Julie, the convenor, from Gene’s description: ‘blonde with big tits’. I...
There was only one bar of that name, in a back street of an inner suburb. I had already modified the day’s schedule, cancelling my market trip to catch up on the lost sleep. I would purchase a ready-m...
Then, in this vanishingly small moment in the history of the universe, she took my hand, and held it all the way to the subway.
Dishonesty was part of the price of being a social animal, and of marriage in particular.
I have never heard of the Wife Project. But I’m about to. In detail.’‘Of course,’ I said. ‘But we should time-share it with pizza-consumption and beer-drinking.’‘Of course,’ said Rosie
Rosie and I were on our way to New York, where being weird is acceptable.
Research has shown that creativity is enhanced when performing straightforward mechanical tasks such as jogging, cooking and driving. Unobstructed thinking time is always useful.
Rationality was returning to deal with the mess that emotions had created.
Rain Man! I had seen the film. I did not identify in any way with Rain Man, who was inarticulate, dependent, and unemployable. A society of Rain Men would be dysfunctional. A society of Don Tillmans w...
Love is a powerful feeling for another person, often defying logic.
I diagnosed brain overload and set up a spreadsheet to analyze the situation.
If Rosie’s mother had known that eye colour was not a reliable indicator of paternity, and organised a DNA test to confirm her suspicions, there would have been no Father Project, no Great Cocktail Ni...
It is generally accepted that people enjoy surprises: hence the traditions associated with Christmas, birthdays, and anniversaries. In my experience, most of the pleasure accrues to the giver. The vic...
There was also a dark-haired man of about thirty (BMI approximately twenty) who appeared not to have shaved for several days, and, beside him, the most beautiful woman I had ever seen. In contrast to...
Sex was absolutely not allowed to be scheduled, at least not by explicit discussion, but I had become familiar with the sequence of events likely to precipitate it: a blueberry muffin from Blue Sky Ba...
Gene and Claudia tried for a while to assist me with the Wife Problem. Unfortunately, their approach was based on the traditional dating paradigm, which I had previously abandoned on the basis that th...
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