having nothing to do with anything but everything to do with nothing, here is an excerpt from “The Man of my Dreams” by Curtis Sittenfeld
“…To live with a person who might at any moment spin out of control makes everything so clear: Your goal is to not instigate, and if you are successful, avoidance is its own reward. The things other people want, what they chase after and think they’re entitled to – possessions or entertainment or, say, fairness – who cares? These are extraneous. All you are trying to do is prolong the periods between outbrusts or, if this proves impossible, to conceal these outbursts from the rest of the world.”
