Sublime

Until Tonner Freis had found a way to translate between them, and changed everything.

Pyrrhic

convoluted to the point of pain.

“Almost Talmudically self-conscious?” Mark says. “Obsessed with its own interpretation?”

Neither blackness nor “people of color” stimulates in me notions of excessive, limitless love, anarchy, or routine dread.

parthenogenesis,

Even if enough exposure to the unvarying gray sickness had somehow managed to immunize him, he could still never accept the way each owner, each shadow, filed in only to exchange a dented, malfunctioning version of himself for another, just as futureless, automotive projection of somebody else’s life. As if it were the most natural thing. To Mucho

One or two fingers of cirrus were now in the sky overhead.

As they approached Underhill Michel felt the cold pushing through the fabric into his skin, and he felt the too-cool oxygenated air expand out of the mouthpiece deep into his lungs, and he glanced up at the sand horizon and the sand sky and said to himself, I am a diamondback snake, slithering through a red desert of cold stone and dry dust. Someda