“and do you think the new brood made it okay for Job to have seen those other sons and daughters dead, their lips shrinking to an icebox smile, or was that so much conciliatory salt on the sore, for all… — Vanessa Place Copy Share Image
“We haven’t got that kind of time. All we have is mind and mind, that slate of neurons for which the skull serves as… — Vanessa Place Copy Share Image
“Life’s a Shepherd’s stew, he thinks, with thunderstruck clarity, there’s too much stringy this and too little the soft that, and the sweet nubbin… — Vanessa Place Copy Share Image
“But whosh mocking who, Moan Sooie, who hung hope on me like a pre-lit fuse, I mean shit and goddamn, why supply a set… — Vanessa Place Copy Share Image
“Each metropolis preselects its suicide like an officer packs a capsule, for if a city lives by remembering, mein Leibnitz Herr, the opposite must… — Vanessa Place Copy Share Image
“In the image of God created he him.' We are the cheap sons and daughters the Father desires, for filthy Job triumphed over the… — Vanessa Place Copy Share Image
“QUESTION: Are you suggesting that history is irrelevant, then, and the temporal span of humankind merely the recycling of tropes? ANSWER: Well, I think… — Vanessa Place Copy Share Image
“and do you think the new brood made it okay for Job to have seen those other sons and daughters dead, their lips shrinking… — Vanessa Place Copy Share Image
“Myles P. doesn’t resist, he sinks down and down, letting the sound of Willard’s lisp close over him light as a foaming wave and… — Vanessa Place Copy Share Image
“but being over’s no problemo, it’s the getting there that’s a bitch or a boor or a bother, to that small apresbellum, the birth… — Vanessa Place Copy Share Image
“Grief is like any dog, once in and fed, it won’t go, but crawls in a corner and stays. And my sorrow is the… — Vanessa Place Copy Share Image
“He smiles into the sun. He loves his wife more than life itself, why he even says, “I love you more than life itself,”… — Vanessa Place Copy Share Image
“Aquinas said if you have knowledge you don’t need faith, and I think he was on to something, but for now all I can… — Vanessa Place Copy Share Image
