Come away with me, he said, we will live on a desert island. I said, I am a desert island. It was not what he had in mind.

He has been trying to sing Love into existence again And he has failed

Perhaps I write for no one. Perhaps for the same person children are writing for when they scrawl their names in the snow.

A hot wind was blowing around my head, the strands of my hair lifting and swirling in it, like ink spilled in water.

Anyway, maybe there weren't any solutions. Human society, corpses and rubble. It never learned, it made the same cretinous mistakes over and over, trading short-term gain for long-term pain.

Communications technology changes possibilities for communication, but that doesn't mean it changes the inherited structure of the brain. So you may think that you're addicted to online reading, but as soon as it isn't available anymore, your brain will pretty immediately adjust to other forms of reading. It's a habit like all habits.

There's a difference between describing and evoking something. You can describe something and be quite clinical about it. To evoke it, you call it up in the reader. That's what writers do when they're good.