Sublime

Babette, disheveled, has the careless dignity of someone too preoccupied with serious matters to know or care what she looks like.

quiet as the grave.

Howard Scott Warshaw

Just your everyday grouping of civilized gentlemen, sitting in a round robin to discuss the events of the day with quivering erections.

His time was no more valuable than my time, his life no more important than anyone else’s life—except, by the terms governing the ecosystem, it was.

Updike’s “A&P”