Creativity is Subtraction – truth from Austin Kleon, part of his brilliant Newspaper Blackout project.
Maira Kalman — the remarkable artist, prolific author, and unmatched storyteller — shares some wisdom on identity, happiness, and existence.
Fiction
Dream self was getting tired of life so she requested that she be shot with a poisoned dart straight to her heart, as she thought that that would be the least painful way to go.
It was given her, but it didn’t seem to take effect quickly, so she asked if it was powerful / potent, and if it wasn’t she said she did not really want to die so may she please be not shot in case she wakes up the next day.
She wakes up.
And then I wake up.
