“I’m constantly emotional.” “Are you emotional right now?” “I’m extremely emotional right now.” “What emotions are you feeling?” “All of them.” “Like…” “Right now I’m feeling sadness, happiness, anger, love, guilt, joy, shame, and a little bit of humor, because part of my brain is remembering something hilarious that Toothpaste once did that I can’t talk about” “Sounds like you’re feeling an awful lot.” “He put ExLax in the Pain au chocolate we sold at the French Club bake sale.” “That is funny.” “I’m feeling everything.” “This emotionalness of yours, does it effect your daily life?” “Well, to answer your question, I don’t think that’s a real word you used.  Emotionalness.  But I understand what you were trying to say, and yes.  I end up crying a lot, usually in private.  It’s extremely hard for me to go to school.  I also can’t sleep over at friends’ apartments, because I get panicky about being away from Mom.  I’m not very good with people.” “What do you think is going on?” “I feel too much. That’s what’s going on.” “Do you think one can feel too much?  Or just feel in the wrong ways?” “My insides don’t match up with my outsides.” “Do anyones’s insides and outsides match up?” “I don’t know.  I’m only me.” “Maybe that’s what a person’s personality is: the difference between the inside and the outside.” “But it’s worse for me.” “I wonder if everyone thinks it’s worse for him.” “Probably.  But it really is worse for me.”

Jonathan Safran Foer (EL&IC)

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