“If we do not find anything very pleasant, at least we shall find something new.”
—Voltaire
I saw the above quote in the movie Tadpole (2002) and immediately mis-memorized it: “No matter what happens, at least we can say we had an adventure”; and for awhile I carried that mis-quote with me, a sort of positive mantra that tick-tocked in my head when going got choppy, and it took years before I used Google to get it right, and discovered: holy wow, was I off, and I liked that I had read it differently, that my brain had re-constructed his words into a more positive light — though, reading his quote now, seven days before I move to his mother country, I think: what he wrote was not so negative; I think: what I misconstrued isn’t all that positive.
Todd Zuniga is the s the founding editor of Opium magazine.
great sentence(s)!
In Opium, I always find something new and pleasant. Something that stays with me.
Although, Todd, I immediately lost the pin you made for me at AWP.