Sublime

"Woman" in the abstract is young, and, we assume, charming. As they get older they pass off the stage, somehow, into private ownership mostly, or out of it altogether. But these good ladies were very much on the stage, and yet any one of them might have been a grandmother.

Like a lot of the other girls, Alex had found out quickly that she was not beautiful enough to model. The lucky ones realized this sooner rather than later. But she was tall enough and skinny enough that people often assumed she was more beautiful than she was. A good trick.

"we are unwilling to expose our country to free communication with the rest of the world—as yet.

copacetic

Was this my punishment? To live the reality of my dream and find out that its glittering beauty faded to nothing when I stepped close?

epigram

Highfalutin.”