Sublime

When the seed falls, it falls into the earth, into the soil. And beneath, out of sight, it comes to life.

voyeurism

He knows only that these people—the tiny few immune to consensual reality—have a secret he needs to understand.

Hitchcockian protagonist,

taupe,

That Thomas had worked for the Chronicle since 1976 was easily established, as was the fact that he’d published three brief novels since that date. Out of a sense of delicacy Carleton never mentioned that he owned all three of these, and found them elegant and elliptical, couched in prose that had the cadence of the King James Bible, and concerned