Arrival Her arrival at a social gathering was like a sudden shaft of sunlight, winter sunlight, that is, bringing no warmth but doing enough to illuminate the shallowness of the occasion, and inducing in her acquaintances a vague sensation of bleakness, not easily thrown off, even by drinking more wine than is really advisable, according to official guidelines. Martin Auster Introspection Wanted: cartographers, To fashion a chart, on which will appear Soundings, and safe harbours, Uncertain passages, and shameful truths; Interior regions; moral blind spots As yet imperfectly explored; With lines of emotional latitude; A compass rose; also, a…
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