Love and Death on Long Island: A Novel

swot.

asphodels

rarefaction

glissading,

But having found myself once more in the mental posture with which I was perversely most at ease – that of being alone in apprehending the mark of beauty where it is least to be expected – I was determined to savour for a moment this unsummoned windfall.

synecdoche

This bronzed boy looked as though he must smell of freshly baked bread.

scurrilous

By very definition, said Chesterton, our memories are of what we have forgotten.