“As he looked out over this green- and gray-blue world, it struck Skylar as a blank piece of linen on which the painter had only completed the background and which awaited the subject matter of the work as a cradle awaits its babe. A waxing crescent moon revealed itself from behind the clouds: the banana-shaped […]
Continue reading“Skylar could not make out the place where the surf broke. Low tide had drawn that break out into the blind distance. So, like a man with dead eyes, he only heard the water come. It came susurrantly, whispering, cooing, the audible equivalent of the back of a lover’s fingers running down one’s cheek in […]
Continue reading“At that time, in the early seventies, young people selected the music appropriate for an occasion carefully, for the music both symbolized their feelings at that moment and helped to deepen and expand them. Not merely background or atmosphere or something to be sporadically sung along with or swayed to, music functioned magically: creating entirely […]
Continue reading“Cars of all sorts, Lux’s Z28, Lammet’s van, Desiree’s Comet, a tiny Porsche 914, a Chevelle SS, an Oldsmobile Cutlass, a Ford Falcon, and a Plymouth Valiant, had been parked next to each other under the branches of the maples and elms. A gossip of girls sat on the wooden railing edging the play area, […]
Continue reading“An Enlightened Being sees the waves on the surface of the ocean as “ocean,” not as separate entities. People stuck in typical waking consciousness get tripped up by their own verbal labels, calling the waves “waves,” and fully, if thoughtlessly, believing them to be something other than conformations of the great ocean. In like manner, […]
Continue reading“Any humble writer would tremble before the task of describing such a man, but one must make an attempt. Royal Fortunatus, Jr. first impressed one as a handsome young man who had about him a patrician air. He would have looked just as fine in the white linen, waistcoat, and breeches of the Federalist period, […]
Continue reading