Pick a hobby where you eat your failures.

Another overproofed dough.

Baked anyway.

Sliced thin.

Freeze half.

We’ll toss a third at the duckpond.

The rest to sabotage my diet.

Illustration of baker from Picturesque Representations of the Dress and Manners of the English(1814) by William Alexander (1767-1816).

I couldn’t very well say, “What an awful thing happened,” or “This story is very gruesome,” because I would make a fool of myself. That kind of thing must be left to the readers, not to writers. Otherwise the whole thing goes to pieces.
from “Prose” in Borges on Writing

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