Sublime

His very existence was twinned: there was who he was at work and who he was outside of it; there was who he was then and who he had been; there was who he was in court and who he had been in the car, so alone with himself that I had been frightened.

She peered at men in the grocery store and wondered if they were undercover cops who knew that she lived with the man who had started the Silk Road.

verisimilitude,

lurid