corruption
It’s always amazing to me that people think, “Because I thought this up, instead of reading it in doctrine, that means it’s more true.” It’s a funny prejudice. I mention in my essay [in Poetry] my girlfriend who thinks she hears her dead husband in a wind chime. And she thinks I’m crazy to believe in the resurrection? Often, people think, “If it’s in my own head, it can’t be corrupt.” But for me, if it’s my own head, it’s got to be corrupt. It took me a long time to come to that.
[Mary Karr, poet and memoirist]
