Intimacies: A Novel

Interpretation was a matter of great subtlety, a word with many contexts, for example it is often said that an actor interprets a role, or a musician a piece of music.

rigmarole,

It is surprisingly easy to forget what you have witnessed, the horrifying image or the voice speaking the unspeakable, in order to exist in the world we must and we do forget, we live in a state of I know but I do not know.

there were great chasms beneath words, between two or sometimes more languages, that could open up without warning.

logorrheic

perfunctory

garrulous

strident:

supplication.