The verdict: "lousy with secrets"

texture · 14 Nov YDAU

• When: Sat 14 Nov YDAU (2009), night (cleaning frame)
• What: Capping the Thanksgiving memory, Joelle concludes the whole Incandenza family was lousy with secrets — from each other, themselves, itself — the biggest being the pretense that overt eccentricity equals openness ("exactly as crazy as they seem," the punter's phrase); and that we're all more intuitive about our lovers' families than our own.