Sublime

A man has two primary drives in early adulthood: one toward power, success, and accomplishment; the other toward love, companionship, and sex. Half of life then was out of order. To go before them was to stand up as a man and admit that I was only half a man.

David Bowie is in every book,

‘Oh good,’ he said. He put the computer to sleep, stood up, and then, for no reason at all, he picked Coraline up, which he had not done for such a long time, not since he had started pointing out to her she was much too old to be carried, and he carried her into the kitchen.

In his mind he was the protagonist of every story, the center of everyone’s appalling attention;

He drank and smoked too much, he had no money, he had the neuroses of a beta male and the know-it-all confidence of an alpha male.

But this was the home I had chosen.

Pour l’amour de Nola, il se rendit donc au bal, de mauvaise grâce et seul. À peine arrivé, il regretta déjà sa décision : il se sentait mal à l’aise au contact de la foule. Pour se donner un semblant de contenance, il s’installa au bar et se fit servir quelques martinis tout en regardant les invités qui arrivaient au fur et à mesure.