Nicholson Baker ‘The Fermata’
“But that is the strange thing about what you are expected to do in life - you are supposed to forget that there are hundreds of cities, each one full of women, and that it is most unlikely that you have found the perfect one for you. You are just supposed to pick the best one out of the ones you know and can attract, and in fact you do this happily - you feel that the love you direct toward the one you do choose is arbitrarily bestowed.”
(You can’t tell me that doesn’t quietly undermine convention.)
