Florine, Peggy and others in “Donald the Normal”

Why on earth would you memorize Tobias Wolff's "Bullet in the Brain"?

It's a short story, Florine.

I don't care if it was a haiku. It was sad enough to read. It'd be torture to memorize.

No, it was it was calming, actually.

Okay. More please.

I don't know why, exactly. Well, it was it was during a period of my life where I was having some difficulties dealing with the passage of time, in a traditional sense. And since Mr. Wolff's short story deals partly with the bending of time, well, in memorizing it, or in taking the action of memorizing it, I too was able to bend time, in a way. Or at least... experience... it differently.

Nicely defended, Donald.