Some of the exuberance of my essay-writing has gone because I'm worried about the uses they could serve.
The decline of education in North America and I suppose in Western Europe makes it harder to have a common body of references.
But when we are nostalgic, we take pictures
Few ever see what is not already inside their heads.
To travel is to shop.
The only story that seems worth writing is a cry, a shot, a scream. A story should break the reader's heart.