Sublime

Hitchcockian protagonist,

him.

Adam

Edwin is capable of action but prone to inertia. He likes sitting by his window. There’s a constant movement of people and ships. He doesn’t want to leave, so he stays.

Or consider the line drawn by Mr. Jaffe at the candy store around our corner—a line so well understood by his customers and by other storekeepers too that they can spend their whole lives in its presence and never think about it consciously. One ordinary morning last winter, Mr. Jaffe, whose formal business name is Bernie, and his wife, whose forma

Flashbacks: linear stories that pause and share a flashback that sets context before continuing.

grok,”

Amadeus and Being There,

sui generis.