Sublime

anthropomorphically.”

worst.

aberration

precocious.

Edwidge Danticat story: “Shame is heavier than a hundred bags of salt.”

The terse short-story writers, the poets who never capitalized or punctuated—they came into existence via the telegraph, and now that the telegraph is done with, that sort of writing has mostly vanished too.

portentousness

invective

indignities