Sublime

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Help me, Will. Pale Fire. Paraphrased, this evidently means: Let me look in Shakespeare for something I might use for a title. And the find is “pale fire.” But in which of the Bard’s works did our poet cull it? My readers must make their own research. All I have with me is a tiny vest pocket edition of Timon of Athens—in Zemblan! It certainly conta

The way her voice sounded he knew in his heart, as if for the first time just then, it was the sweetest sound, not just because of the tone, or because of how patient she’d always been with him, never turning her tone on him to indicate even a trace of resentment, but the quality of her voice like the quality of water when your throat needs most to