Sublime

Peace, Walter Brueggemann

Briefly Carleton considered the other man, of whom he’d made such a study he might have been appointed professor of Thomas Studies at the University of Essex. He knew, for example, that Thomas was a confirmed bachelor, as they say, never seen in the company of a beautiful young person or a stately older one; that he had about him the melancholy rel

The last time Scott had been in Paris, he got the Hemingways locked out of one apartment and in trouble with the landlord all the time.

Several years ago, I met Julio Payes, a permanent resident from Guatemala

Envin, je veux aller en Amérique du Sud. – Écoute, Robert, changer de pays, ça ne sert à rien. J'ai essayé tout ça. Ce n'est pas parce que tu iras d'un endroit dans un autre que tu échapperas à toi-même. Ça ne donne aucun résultat.

JR was an experienced salesperson and a little older than the others—mid-forties. He was usually tan, never rude, and always agreed to do whatever the staff asked of him. Unfortunately, JR rarely followed through. In those cases when he came clean and acknowledged having made a commitment that went unfulfilled, he apologized profusely to whomever h

He has always been alien to her, a man of procedures where there should be passions.