Absurdity isn't quite so absurd as it once was.

Novels seem to exist because of this need to know and connect, and so story becomes charged with necessity.

The idea that language can be recombined to create new forms, new things, is of course very old in poetry.

The novel's not the best form for disposing ideas, though that's one thing it can do. It likely is the best form, though, for conveying the experience of us each being alone, trapped in our skulls with only these bodies and this imperfect instrument of language to convey our state and to find meaning and connection.

Absurdity isn't quite so absurd as it once was.

Many of the concepts we once thought belonged to speculation or science fiction are now part of our understood reality.

Toronto is hard to capture in a few strokes.