
The Outsider

He knows only that these people—the tiny few immune to consensual reality—have a secret he needs to understand.
Richard Powers • The Overstory: A Novel
I found myself shaking his hand warmly. Minutes later I was out on the street. A boy walked splay-footed across a public lawn, nudging a soccer ball before him. A second kid sat on the grass, taking off his socks by grabbing the heels and yanking. How literary, I thought peevishly. Streets thick with the details of impulsive life as the hero ponder
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