And I sat there getting drunker and drunker and more in love and more in love.

I don't think you can talk about progress in art - movement, but not progress. You can speak of a point on a line for the purpose of locating things, but it's a horizontal line, not a vertical one.

The death of God left the angels in a strange position.

The writer is one who, emnbarking upon a task, does not know what to do.

And I sat there getting drunker and drunker and more in love and more in love...And you can never touch a girl in the same way more than once, twice, or another number of times however much you may wish to hold, wrap, or otherwise fix her hand, or look, or some other quality, or incident, known to you previously.

Faint equivalents can sometimes be found ... . Or it can be rendered obliquely-an adolescent's mental image of his or her parents making love, which must be something on the order of crocodiles mating.

We are what we have been told about ourselves. We are the sum of the messages we have received. The true messages. The false messages.