Sublime

extreme paucity of expression.

Each of them knows innumerable minute, local truths.

Back in Brooklyn, a poet-nurse to the Union dying writes: A leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars. Jørgen never reads these words.

susurrus

bucolic

Because ecosystems tend toward diversity, and markets do the opposite.

Immediately she opened the door (which included two large tracts of coloured glass), I apprehended a change in her; essentially the first change in all the time I had known her, for the woman who had come to my parents’ house a fortnight or three weeks before, had seemed to me very much the girl who had joined my class when we were both children. B

derision

She herself did not seem quite real.