Sublime

“A rich husband,” Amelia had said, “doesn’t change the fact that Persephone’s main residence is in an undesirable location with no view whatsoever. Just think of the difficulties in leasing it out during the off-months.”

That’s when Adam realizes: Humankind is deeply ill. The species won’t last long. It was an aberrant experiment. Soon the world will be returned to the healthy intelligences, the collective ones. Colonies and hives.

parvenu.

we insignificant people with our daily words and acts are preparing the lives of many Dorotheas, some of which may present a far sadder sacrifice than that of the Dorothea whose story we know. Her finely-touched spirit had still its fine issues, though they were not widely visible. Her full nature, like that river of which Cyrus broke the strength,

custodians

Something huge and heavy and slow and far away and altogether unknown to him begins to say what it might mean. And then he proceeds to show her. . . .

“As a liberated young woman on the Pill, the men hope or expect me to be sexually available at all times. Of course, if I am, then I’m a whore. If I’m not, then I’m a prude.” “Is the work interesting, at least?” he asked. “This month we did profiles on John Ehrlichman and William F. Buckley. The latter written by William F. Buckley.” “That reminds

Did women really assemble themselves out of the parts they thought most likely to be wanted? Was that love’s requirement? If so, she’d have none of it.