the end of the story

This is such an wonderful interview, I think Lydia Davis is so smart. This quote from one of her stories, that they use in the article,  really talks to me. I love the way she articulates how I see the world better then I even can though maybe that is a given. I love her writing the same way I love Mary Gaitskill they are so different and yet they remind me of one another.

The narrator in “New Year’s Resolution,” who is studying Zen again, resolves to see herself as nothing, but instead realizes that: “halfway through your life, you are smart enough to see that it all amounts to nothing, even success amounts to nothing. But how does a person learn to see herself as nothing when she has already had so much trouble learning to see herself as something in the first place? It’s so confusing. You spend the first half of your life learning that you are something after all, now you have to spend the second half learning to see yourself as nothing. You have been a negative nothing, now you want to be a positive nothing.”