If you feel a bump on page one hundred, it may be you went off on page fifty.
Implications of treason are fed like cubes of sugar to the twelve-headed animal which is justice. In ... opening remarks. In the way questions are asked. In support of lines of questioning where cases of treason are cited and the Judge endorses the relevance of the citation.
Movies are too literal.
Dad is always hiding in his book.
A novel is a printed circuit through which flows the force of a reader's own life.
Most people are quiet in the world, and live in it tentatively, as if it were not their own.