magical
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The sun set below the horizon
The sun set below the horizon, and the sky turned a deep shade of purple. The stars began to appear, and the world was bathed in a soft, silvery light.…
But just as I didn’t want to resent my kids
I also didn’t want to find myself too much in love with them. There are parents who don’t like to hear their little girl crying at night, at the vast…
In the hospital men’s room
In the hospital men’s room, as I’m washing my hands, I glance in the mirror. The man I see is not so much me as my father. When did he…
For although a man is judged by his actions
For although a man is judged by his actions, by what he has said and done, a man judges himself by what he is willing to do, by what he…
A secret always has a strengthening effect
A secret always has a strengthening effect upon a newborn friendship, as does the shared impression than an external figure is to blame: the men of the Crown have become…
Sometimes, when Chapuys has finished
digging up Walter’s bones and making his own life unfamiliar to him, he feels almost impelled to speak in defense of his father, his childhood. But it is no use…
It was but a hurried parting in a common
street, yet it was a sacred remembrance to these two common people. Utilitarian economists, skeletons of schoolmasters, Commissioners of Fact,
I knew that on the island one was driven
back into the past. There was so much space, so much silence, so few meetings that one too easily saw out of the present, and then the past seemed ten…
Imagine the silence now, in that place which
is no-place, that anteroom to God where each hour is ten thousand years long. Once you imagined the souls held in a great net, a web spun by God,