Sublime

Nuland was a renowned surgeon-philosopher whose seminal book about mortality, How We Die, had come out when I was in high school but made it into my hands only in medical school. Few books I had read so directly and wholly

Therefore I will introduce myself. I, Georgie, am Mr. Bob Gray, also known as Pennywise the Dancing Clown.

Writing is a solitary and daunting endeavor. I wish for this material to be a lantern to help guide you through the dark tunnel of creation.

“I might not know your name,” Ma said, taking Zhu’s hand. “But I know who you are.”

I’d been obsessed with this film from the first time I saw it in the 1970s. In it Terence Stamp plays a mysterious man called The Visitor who arrives at the home of a haute-bourgeois Italian family and seduces everyone in the house—the mother, the father, the son, the daughter, and the maid—and brings them out of their depression and complacency in