Bhanu: A Failed Novelist's definitions

human being

An entity who carries stories the way other entities carry bits of twig or children with big eyes or a carapace.. I cannot say the human being has a set of appendages or that he or she has language. It's not about that. It's not about movement. It's not about sounds that are held in the body. When I boil up a human being (which is horrible to think about, I'm sorry), I get: narrative. As the distinguishing trait.

I mean, she broke up with me, but she broke up with me in the morning. She was a real human being about it, you know? She spent the night.

by Bhanu: A Failed Novelist January 17, 2008