Indecision by Benjamin Kunkel - Excerpt

So far my main accommodation to Vaneetha-Dwight domesticity was to keep little jars of both condiments at her place in Carroll Gardens. "I still can’t believe what you’ll put in your mouth." Her dad’s various ambassadorial postings had caused her to be educated in British-run schools, and she pronounced can’t like as in philosopher Immanuel Kant. "But I’m touched you’re moving in, after your fashion." Morningtime fun could be had if she was game and would feed me a mystery bagel half while my eyes were closed. "To have no idea," I would say, "when both options are so equally good!"

Then I rode the F train, if from Vaneetha’s place, or took the 2/3 to Forty-second, and on the way would look at The Uses of Freedom–such a different book in the daylight, and so much less credible.

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