Sublime

a lived experience that in some ways resists description,

copacetic

lugubrious

The skin along her jaw sagged, parentheses-shaped grooves lined either side of her mouth, and her once-pouty lower lip was deflated. Her nose looked larger and her hazel eyes had crow’s feet. There was no gray in her hair, but it was less lustrous and dyed blond.

Susan Sontag was America’s last great literary star, a flashback to a time when writers could be, more than simply respected or well regarded, famous.

anthropomorphically.”

Two languages cancel each other out, suggests Barthes, beckoning a third. Sometimes our words are few and far between, or simply ghosted.