Evangeline Lilly Instagram – I don’t do band-wagons, so when one of my best friends recommended Miranda July’s “All Fours” to me, toting it as the new “menopausal anthem”, I was immediately resistant. More pop pith. But not at all. I read it and, fuck me, not at all. Talent like this is just profoundly defeating and annoying. I got to the end of the book asking myself, “how does a person do this??” The alchemy of truly good authorship is like the dark arts. To have something so fluid and creative hung so sturdily on a scaffolding of intention and razor sharp execution is more talent than I know where to put in my mind. It makes me want to draw near Miranda, sniff around the edges like a dog on the street – intrigued and wary at the same time. “How do you do it?” I want to ask her. But I know that question is moot before it’s asked. “How do you do it?” The question keeps ringing in my mind, and I want to find out if I can do it. So, both discouraged and inspired, I press on with my own writing and wait for the day when I will produce something that has half the merit of this masterpiece. It’s the not the first masterpiece I’ve ever read, nor will it be the last, but this is the most recent, and I just put the book down, and there’s “golden light everywhere”.
Congratulations, Miranda. I hope you are so proud of your creation. It’s truly incredible. ✨
PS – I stole these images from your page. Hope you don’t mind. 🥸
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