One swing set, well worn but structurally sound, seeks new home. Make memories with your kid or kids so that someday he or she or they will look into the backyard and feel the ache of sentimentality as desperately as I did this afternoon. It's all fragile and fleeting, dear reader, but with this swing set, your child(ren) will be introduced to the ups and downs of human life gently and safely, and may also learn the most important lesson of all: No matter how hard you kick, no matter how high you get, you can't go all the way around.

I was born into Bolívar's labyrinth, and so I must believe in the hope of Rabelais' Great Perhaps.

I have an Augustus Waters fetish.

The thing about chameleoning your way through life is that it gets to where nothing is real.

She walks lightly, old man. She walks lightly upon the earth.

What's the meaning of life? Other people.

All good American literature is always interested in people who are ambiguously heroic, like Gatsby.