2002-10-21 - 7:56 a.m.

so.

"Earnest isn't enough for me anymore. Earnest, at least in the grand, overarching, drippingly dramatic sense of the word, is a luxury of high school and college students. Past a certain age and level of experience, you don't romanticize your pain anymore, you don't flail around and make a big show of hurting and fainting and moaning and sighing anymore (if you ever did) � you just hurt."