{"id":190,"date":"2007-02-06T11:16:00","date_gmt":"2007-02-06T11:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fridaynirvana.com\/fiction\/2007\/02\/more-from-nora-ephron.html"},"modified":"2011-06-30T20:13:26","modified_gmt":"2011-06-30T20:13:26","slug":"more-from-nora-ephron","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fridaynirvana.com\/fiction\/2007\/02\/more-from-nora-ephron.html","title":{"rendered":"More from Nora Ephron"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"heartburn\"<\/a> This<\/strong> is part II of this<\/a> post. Some more excerpts from “Heartburn” – what Rachel Samstat thinks about stuff :<\/p>\n

Describing her husband Mark<\/strong> – He has a black beard , but the part of it that\u2019s on the left side of his chin has a little white stripe in it, where the skin underneath has no pigment. Just like a skunk is what you\u2019re thinking, and you\u2019re right, but it can look very odd and interesting<\/p>\n

On finding good men<\/strong> – You think I\u2019m just standing there, and this army of men is walking by, shouting, \u2019Choose me, choose me\u2019, and I always pick the turkey. Life\u2019s not like that. I can\u2019t even find a man who lives in the same city I do.<\/p>\n

On recipes with potatoes<\/strong> – Not just any potato will do when it comes to love.<\/p>\n

On trying again<\/strong> \u2013 Maybe he\u2019s come to his senses. Maybe he\u2019s remembered he loves me. Maybe he\u2019s full of remorse. There was a police car parked in front of the house. Maybe he\u2019s dead, I thought. That wouldn\u2019t solve everything, but it would solve a few things. He wasn\u2019t, of course. They never are. When you want them to die, they never do.<\/p>\n

On marriages<\/strong> \u2013 We were on our second marriages; we had got the kinks out of the machinery; we would bring up our children in a poppy field of love and financial solvency and adequate household help. There would be guns for our daughters and dolls for our sons.<\/p>\n

On parenting<\/strong> – All those idiotically lyrical articles about child-rearing duties never mention that, nor do they allude to something else that happens when a baby is born, which is that all the power struggles of the marriage have a new playing field. The baby wakes up in the middle of the night, and instead of jumping out of bed, you lie there thinking: whose turn is it? If it\u2019s your turn, you have to get up; if it\u2019s his turn, then why is he still lying there asleep while you\u2019re awake wondering whose turn it is ?<\/p>\n

On throwing pies<\/strong> – If I throw this pie at him, he will never love me. But he doesn\u2019t love me anyway. So I can throw the pie if I want to. I picked up the pie, thanked God for the linoleum floor, and threw it.<\/p>\n

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