Sublime

He was treated with a certain deference as one who had got onto terms with life beyond what his years could account for.

“Hemingway loves to write for those of us who will never come face to face with danger.”

I miss Vance with a fierceness we reserve for the absent who cannot return.

Any more than a person who hasn’t had a car door slammed on his fingers knows what that is

He was a gaunt young man who seemed suspicious of conversation that strayed outside certain unspecified guidelines.

William Gass’s novel Omensetter’s Luck.

Whatever he had been and whatever he’d been called, he was gone, so I did what usually I did around death which was to forget all about it.

things, it is said, are duly recorded -- all things of importance, that is. But not quite, for actually it is only the known, the seen, the heard and only those events that the recorder regards as important that are put down, those lies his keepers keep their power by. But the cop would be Clifton's historian, his judge, his witness, and his execut