Outline: A Novel (Outline Trilogy Book 1)

insensate

And I realised eventually, I said, that it could never be resolved, not so long as the aim was to establish the truth, for there was no single truth any more, that was the point. There was no longer a shared vision, a shared reality even. Each of them saw things now solely from his own perspective: there was only point of view.

childhood, a son was already a disappointment;

transposition

among other things a marriage is a system of belief, a story, and though it manifests itself in things that are real enough, the impulse that drives it is ultimately mysterious.

inscrutable

interring,

milieu,

swimming costumes.