The past is always waiting to entangle and deflect us.

For some, bottles of liquor gleam like the towers of Eldorado.

At retirement, switching from "I must" to "I want" leaves me puzzled and uneasy.

Consensus is usually made possible by vague language and shallow commitments.

The hero used to be the one in white. Now he is harder to spot.

Now that I see you understand me so well, I will avoid you.

I alternate between reading cook books and reading diet books.