An orotundity, which I define as Nobelitis a pomposity in which one is treated as representative of more than oneself by someone conscious of representing more than himself.

They walked along, two continents of experience and feeling unable to communicate.

My father was very musical, and music plays quite a large part in my life.

The water rose further and dressed Simon's coarse hair with brightness. The line of his cheek silvered and the turn of his shoulder became sculptured marble.

We did everything adults would do. What went wrong?

If faces were different when lit from above or below -- what was a face? What was anything?

What a man does defiles him, not what is done by others.