Sublime

superfluous,

and Lee K. Abbott’s “Living Alone in Iota” to showcase voice.

socially hyperresponsible

I spent the next nine hours in a torment of anticipation, daydreaming through my afternoon classes, pondering the mysteries of carnal attraction, and trying to understand what it was about Margot that had worked me up to such a pitch of excitement. My first impression of her had not been particularly favorable. She had struck me as an odd and vapid

He published the work under his recently adopted pseudonym, Shai Agnon.18 In 1966, he would win Israel’s first Nobel Prize.

proselytizers

ersatz.

dipsomaniacal tragedian progressively crippled by obsessions with death