Sublime

The trappers, meanwhile, were unhappy we had usurped their glory with the she-bear and were, I felt, preparing to exhibit rudeness. To thwart this I introduced Charlie and myself, our full names, which silenced them. Now they will hate us ever more virulently, but secretly, I thought.

the unexpected dignity of a choice.

My flesh and scalp started to ring and tingle and I became someone other than myself, or I became my second self, and this person was highly pleased to be stepping from the murk and into the living world where he might do just as he wished.

in a frenzy of commerce,

plaint

This was my dream, and it was a powerful, vivid one, but I did nothing to enact it,

money is its own country.”