October 23, 2017

Sweet M chatted with me through my late morning office hours. It was almost absurdly pleasant, like watching a movie of somebody else’s life. Have begun to receive benign visitations and know not why, and do not ask why lest they become self-conscious and creep away.

Maud seems to have disappeared, though she can be nowhere but in this house.

My beautiful designer wants to make a statement about racism out of the fact that our Japanese characters are white people with masks on. In fact, our Japanese characters are white people with masks on because we have no Japanese actors. I think we could say that and be done, but perhaps I’m missing a larger point.