JACK

His understanding of things is limited. He goes sock, shoe, sock, shoe instead of sock, sock, shoe, shoe. He fiddles with the radio dial until he gets static and proclaims it “the most beautiful sound I’ve ever heard.” He eats grasses and ferns with little regard for their nutritional value. He thinks Judah Maccabee is the opposite of Noël Coward. He insists that his father invented the spaces between words. He maintains a defiantly unfashionable hairdo. He can’t sit still to see an entire movie, and consequently must be told the end right at the beginning. He cries easily. He abhors compromise. By all these things, beliefs and bargains both, he avoids responsibility. His understanding of things is complete.

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