Sublime

Each year the world Rich lived in felt more and more like a huge electronic haunted house in which digital ghosts and frightened human beings lived in uneasy coexistence.

A young reporter for the Post named Tom Wolfe followed up after my talk with an interview. The Post ran his story, “You Can So Beat the Gambling House at Blackjack, Math Expert Insists.” He was curious rather than skeptical, sympathetic but probing. Wolfe later became one of America’s most famous authors.

leery,

Descriptions like Nuland’s convinced me that such things could be known only face-to-face.

gingerly

Now: the second-best of times.

Emotional hurt is the price a person has to pay in order to be independent.

But he has made her happy in the only place where people really live, the few-second-wide window of Now.

Life, among other things, is copy-making machinery.