Notebook 75, page 6. September 5, 2021:
“Oh my God we dropped our son at college and our dog is dead.” -- Anne.
Anne is my wife. You’d like her.
She said this one Sunday in 2021 while we were reading in the living room.
There are at least two kinds of living room declarations. The first -- of which this is not an example-- punctuates a tense domestic exchan…









