{"text":"All you can do is involve yourself totally in your own life, your own moment, Lonzi said. And when we feel pessimism crouching on our shoulders like a stinking vulture, he said, we banish it, we smother it with optimism. We want, and our want kills doom.","author":"Rachel Kushner","tags":["doom","life","optimism","pessimism","want"],"id":8325,"author_id":"Rachel+Kushner"}