Sublime

True to form, less than three months later, Stuart was off – again.

Leo took his time walking up the stairs, contemplating how he had ended up here–policing people’s reactions. He’d never intended to join the State Security Department; the career had grown out of his military service.

But he had suffered enough. He had suffered for years in the limbo of failure and self-immolation that was the end of his marriage—that was the end of any marriage. Yes! This will be fun! He looked out the window just then and saw that it was summer. It was summer!

William Gass’s novel Omensetter’s Luck.