Sublime

It seemed to him obvious that the human life span runs through the varieties of mental disorder as understood in his day—the solipsism of infancy, the sexual hysterias of adolescence and entry-level adulthood, the paranoia of middle age, the dementia of late life . . . all working up to death, which at last turns out to be “sanity.”

Shadows out of the past clutch at my legs and drag me down.

a personage whose refrigerator-like build, rubbery face, and heavy eyelids brought to mind some anthropomorphic piece of furniture in a Disney movie.

debonair

miasmata

completely alien and strange, but beautiful for its strangeness.

Donald Antrim,

weak, shifty,

The question that was the pure liquid element of the portal—who am I failing to protect?—had found its stopped-clock answer.