Bionic Wisdom

Devil's Confusion is from Beloved by Toni Morrison. Two words that explain why the world is the way that it is, but that I am still working on being able to explain with words. In its context in the book however it goes something like this:

"You looking good," Sethe tells Paul D.
"Devil's confusion. He lets me look good as long as I feel bad."

Being and feeling sick all the time is one thing; the other thing is that apparently I don't look it. Apparently I always look good. And this can't help but make me wonder if you know anything about how I actually feel. I actually get quite frustrated when someone tells me I look good. Because it is no reflection of how I feel. Do you know how I feel? Do you? I would bet money, that I don't have, but I digress, that you don't. You really don't. Stupid Devil's Confusion.

"Looking one way and being another is something that I happen to know a lot about." - Jaime Summers, Bionic Woman