{"id":335,"date":"2023-07-20T16:03:37","date_gmt":"2023-07-20T16:03:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onemiguel.es\/?p=335"},"modified":"2023-07-20T16:03:38","modified_gmt":"2023-07-20T16:03:38","slug":"tomorrow-and-tomorrow-and-tomorrow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onemiguel.es\/en\/reads\/tomorrow-and-tomorrow-and-tomorrow\/","title":{"rendered":"Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Excerpts from the book of Gabrielle Zevin<\/em><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cDarling, it may come out later, and it could hurt your friend\u2019s feelings, if he thinks he is a charity to you, and not a genuine friendship.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cCan\u2019t something be both?\u201d Sadie said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cFriendship is friendship, and charity is charity,\u201d Freda said. \u201cYou know very well that I was in Germany as a child, and you have heard the stories, so I won\u2019t tell them to you again. But I can tell you that the people who give you charity are never your friends. It is not possible to receive charity from a friend.\u201d<\/mark><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI hadn\u2019t thought of it that way,\u201d Sadie said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Freda stroked Sadie\u2019s hand. \u201cMine Sadie. This life is filled with inescapable moral compromises. We should do what we can to avoid the easy ones.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The words of Anders Larsson came back to him: \u201cTo be good at something is not quite the same as loving it.\u201d<\/mark><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Sadie knew that the key to making a video game on limited resources was to make the limitations part of the style. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I was raised by Korean immigrant grandparents in Koreatown, Los Angeles. And as any mixed-race person will tell you\u2014to be half of two things is to be whole of nothing.<\/mark><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cShe never would have won if the Russians hadn\u2019t boycotted,\u201d the man insisted. \u201cIt\u2019s not a victory if the best players aren\u2019t there.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sam asked his mother whether she thought the man with the loud voice was right.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cEven if what he says is true, I think it\u2019s still a victory,\u201d she said. \u201cBecause she won on this day, with this particular set of people. We can never know what else might have happened had other competitors been there. The Russian girls could have won, or they could have gotten jet-lagged and choked.\u201d Anna shrugged. \u201cAnd this is the truth of any game\u2014it can only exist at the moment that it is being played. <\/mark>It\u2019s the same with being an actor. In the end, all we can ever know is the game that was played, in the only world that we know.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Sam\u2019s grandfather had two core beliefs: (1) all things were knowable by anyone, and (2) anything was fixable if you took the time to figure out what was broken. Sam believed these things as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Sam was leaning on his good foot, in the increasingly lopsided way he had to stand, and Sadie felt a swelling of love and of worry for him\u2014what was the difference in the end? It was never worth worrying about someone you didn\u2019t love. And it wasn\u2019t love if you didn\u2019t worry.<\/mark><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cYou\u2019re from Beverly Hills, right?\u201d Zoe asked.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe flats,\u201d Sadie said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe flat part of a place named for its hills?\u201d Zoe said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cYou can\u2019t have hills without flats,\u201d Sadie replied.<\/mark><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Maybe they didn\u2019t like her because she was no good, not talented, too short. Maybe they didn\u2019t like her because they were racist or sexist or harboring some other secret prejudice. In the end, they didn\u2019t like her because they didn\u2019t like her. She wasn\u2019t going to reason them out of their dislike.<\/mark> She wasn\u2019t going to teach anyone anything.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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