Sublime

Each of them knows innumerable minute, local truths.

then mayor Dick Riordon got the 10 back on line after the Northridge quake a full three months ahead of schedule. He even issued curfews and no one gave a rat’s ass. They loved him.

The proposal is bound to sound odd or frightening or laughable. This is partly because until the rightless thing receives its rights, we cannot see it as anything but a thing for the use of “us”—those who are holding rights at the time.

After Marty had finished speaking, the local health people began to voice the usual list of objections. It was then that Carter leaned over to Marty and whispered: “Ask them what they would do.” He’d prepped Marty for just this moment. How many of you have children or grandchildren? asked Marty. Nearly all hands went up. If there’s a pandemic anyth

She loves feeling that every headway man tries to make

tribe. These divisions impoverish each narrative into a cramped and ever more extreme version of itself.

Billy was having an adventure very common among people without power in time of war: He was trying to prove to a willfully deaf and blind enemy that he was interesting to hear and see.

There’s a perversity in me that, when I talk to conservatives, makes me want to bash the war and, when I talk to liberals, defend it. I’d lived through the Bush administration fucking up on a colossal scale, but I’d also gotten a very good look at the sort of state Zarqawi wanted to establish, and talking with anybody who thought they had a clear v

anthropomorphically.”