Some writers turn despair into humor as a way of making the world bearable, of discovering some glimmer of beauty or pleasure or, most important, humanity.
Living out of jail, and away from K2, she has withdrawals, urgent psychological or physical needs for the drug, for something to take her mind away from life, to make the world bearable.
Call it a manifesto for making the art world bearable again.
Such mythologising was just about bearable within its own world, but elsewhere it jarred.
Smith's work is about that imagination — its role in repairing and sustaining communities, and in making the world more bearable.
Orwell, who claimed he would have preferred to have lived 200 years ago, with his fellow "Tory-anarchist" Swift, might have found that equine excremental world more bearable, attractive even, than the world he was born in.
I love you, you have made the world a bearable place".
What can social scientists do to make the world more bearable?
In fact, the only bearable areas in the world are Montreal, New York City, Austin, Glasgow, Utrecht, Barcelona, Genoa, Languedoc, Paris, and Berlin.
We are also a society that is fortunate to have its survivors help us with the healing power of their art, as proved by Lady Gaga, and countless others who made it through to the other side of evil, helping make the world a bearable place to exist in.
