CAAF: Loose notes

Male character: “Worried about your book?”
Female character: “Oh, there’s my book, the war, the laundry, things I said 15 years ago, the environment, my double chin, unanswered mail, what an ass I am, what a dirty house we have — and I’ve had ‘Goodbye Yellow Brick Road’ playing in my head for days.”
Lynda Barry, What It Is