Sublime

Slender almost to the point of clinical intervention, she had a prominent forehead and surprised eyebrows and a tortoiseshell barrette and was, like Atwater, extremely earnest and serious at all times.

I feel a division which the outside voice posits as the labor pains of a nascent emotional conscience.

The context in which my friend then subsequently had it related to him by his acquaintance was if possible, he said, even more banal and unexpected than a commercial airline flight, as if somehow the quotidian and as it were modern everydayness of the narrative circumstances made its archetypal parallels even more remarkable.

Looking at Tim, one cannot help feeling great waves of uncertainty, an absence of aim, of purpose, as if he is a person who simply doesn’t matter.

One of the agencies the package went to was Frederick Hill Associates in San Francisco, where Bonnie Nadell, a new associate who had worked in the subsidiary rights department at Simon & Schuster when Less Than Zero was published,

Her hair was wiglike in overall configuration, but it had a high protein luster no real wig could ever duplicate.

If you worship money and things — if they are where you tap real meaning in life — then you will never have enough.

Burgess’s novel showed how to use hyperbolic language to convey deadened emotional states.