The Fran Reader: Excerpt #2

Page 127-128: Clothes with Pictures and/or Writing on Them:

"The particular general state of things that I am referring to is the general state of things that encourages people to express themselves through their clothing. Frankly, I for one would not be unhappy if more people expressed themselves by marching en masse into the nearest large body of water, but barring that, I wish they would at least stop attempting to tell all by word of jacket. I mean, be realistic. If people don't want to listen to you, what makes you think they want to hear from your sweater? "


AND THIS my friends, is why I adore the brilliant, Fran Lebowitz.

This arrived today...

After the dismal week I've had, this is keeping me laughing to myself. For instance, the chapter, "Better Read Than Dead: A Revised Opinion", the first sentence ensures that this is a book that I will be taking with me everywhere. So please read from page 32 of the soft-cover:

"My attendance at grammar school coincided rather unappealingly with the height of the cold war. This resulted in my spending a portion of each day sitting cross-legged, head in lap, either alone under my desk or, more sociably, against the wall in the corridor. When not so occupied I could be found sitting in class reading avidly about the horrors of life under Communism. I was not a slow child, but I believed passionately that Communists were a race of horned men who divided their time equally between the burning of Nancy Drew books and devising a plan of nuclear attack that would land the largest and most lethal bomb squarely upon the third-grade class of Thomas Jefferson School in Morristown, New Jersey."

"I believe in talking behind peoples' backs. That way, they hear it more than once." — Fran Lebowitz

"There is no such thing as inner peace. There is only nervousness and death."
— Fran Lebowitz

Mad - Who isn't mad? That's how you know you're awake