Luz would have gladly told her she was free to whine in her presence. If Lexi needed assurance that she was beautiful, Luz was more than happy to oblige her anytime. As far she was concerned, NO ONE could tell her that Lexi wasn't gorgeous.
"Exactly! Besides, anyone can write a great body of work and still be a pretty awful person once you get down to it. Better to try and do your own thing, and if you can separate the author from the work, to do that. Authors are like celebrities that way: you want them to be good people, but its fifty-fifty that they actually are."
And frankly, celebrities might as well be a thing of the past for Luz.
"I mean, you say that NOW. Just reserve your judgement until, well, we get one of the really bad months. I think we've been kind of lucky so far."
Luz knew better than to stay hopeful TOO much. Honestly, Lexi is both reasons to not be too trustful yet also why Luz was feeling happily optimistic again. No one had made her feel like Lexi had, and she didn't want that feeling to end anytime soon.
He also did a good yet fucked up version of Macbeth too. Very screwed up.
"Exactly! Besides, anyone can write a great body of work and still be a pretty awful person once you get down to it. Better to try and do your own thing, and if you can separate the author from the work, to do that. Authors are like celebrities that way: you want them to be good people, but its fifty-fifty that they actually are."
And frankly, celebrities might as well be a thing of the past for Luz.
"I mean, you say that NOW. Just reserve your judgement until, well, we get one of the really bad months. I think we've been kind of lucky so far."
Luz knew better than to stay hopeful TOO much. Honestly, Lexi is both reasons to not be too trustful yet also why Luz was feeling happily optimistic again. No one had made her feel like Lexi had, and she didn't want that feeling to end anytime soon.