Sublime

He lurched toward her like Ahab on the deck of the Pequod, dragging his bad leg.

wraith

This is what people do—solve their own problems in others’ lives.

“If you’re ever in Cody, Wyoming,” said Billy Pilgrim behind his white linen screens, “just ask for Wild Bob.”

As when men to keep from being swept overboard in the storm clutch at each other’s hands to resist being torn apart, so our bodies fused a link in the human chain that kept us from being swept into nothing.

when a man died and became redundant he would be taken up to the attic of the world.

Ladyhawke

“If you’re ever in Cody, Wyoming,” I said to him lazily, “just ask for Wild Bob.”

Living by your wits is always knowing where the wasps are.