The Lady: a fluty voice, sensible shoes, a melancholy sense of living by rules few still remember.

Progress may feel more like loss than gain.

Unlike the actual, the fictional explains itself.

Sign at the orgy: BODIES ONLY.

If everything had a label, we would live in a fully delineated but false world.

Authority is conferred by position, not character.

A sense of blessedness comes from a change of heart, not from more blessings.