Sublime

pall

You are what you do, Morris, he thought, and you have been doing poorly.

to be a plot against America, to use another Rothism. I am trapped in the zozobra push and pull that Roth summarizes so perfectly: “It’s too ridiculous to take seriously and too serious to be ridiculous.”

malaprop.

Sammy raised his eyebrows and let out a short sigh. Rosa shook her head. It seemed to be her destiny to live among men whose solutions were invariably more complicated or extreme than the problems they were intended to solve. “Couldn’t you have just called?” Rosa said. “I’m sure I would have invited you.”

his life, he has been homesick.

like to toy with human thought like boys toy with beetles.