“ Changing the subject is one of the most difficult arts to master, the key to almost all the others.
Cesar Aira, An Episode in the Life of a Landscape Painter.
I was at a reading recently where someone cited this. I quickly pulled out my phone when I heard it and typed it into the bottom of my “Thxgiving to do list”. If only I had meditated on that very difficult art a little more before the big day, maybe we wouldn’t have spent so much time discussing the variety of school teachers in my hometown who have been busted for sleeping with students. Perhaps my mother would have never had the opportunity to say, “What goes around comes around,” not really an appropriate aphorism with regard to the subject matter. Anyhow, I want to delete this to-do list now, my little victory, so here you go.
