Sublime

This is what people do—solve their own problems in others’ lives.

“Why are people so fucked up?”

The conference between Maxwell Perkins and old Charles Scribner, when they met face-to-face, over the unprintable words in Hemingway’s manuscript has become publishing legend.

gumption?

maybe

In fact, it’s Douggie’s growing conviction that the greatest flaw of the species is its overwhelming tendency to mistake agreement for truth.

“Unlike rivers, one can in fact step in the same shit twice.”

If nothing falls in a forest and there is no one around to observe it, does it make a nil?