“her purse. Evan Nussbaum, Det. 114th Precinct, City of New York. It would be one quick phone call, one quick urgently whispered sentence—the truck driver and Desirio are sitting together in a diner—as if each of them carries an electric… — Jonathan Stone Copy Share Image
“rounded, satisfying weight of the simplicity of the idea. He looks at them.” — Jonathan Stone Copy Share Image
“To help with the loading would be foolish vanity on his part, counterproductive. Yes, he is a strong and healthy seventy-two, possessed of a… — Jonathan Stone Copy Share Image
“Their possessions marked the progress of their life not in a pure volume of accumulation—which in itself was somewhat embarrassing, foolish-looking, potentially imprisoning (one… — Jonathan Stone Copy Share Image
“taught him how to test the trash can food first—how to hold it in his mouth, what to taste for, to know it was… — Jonathan Stone Copy Share Image
“Technology is the opposite of mystery. Technology is the end of mystery. Puts the lie to mystery. Makes everything explicit.” — Jonathan Stone Copy Share Image
“Lives that have had their turn now take their turn observing other” — Jonathan Stone Copy Share Image
“led to the crawlspace under the cabin, and staying low crabbed down the stairs into the low dirt-floored crawlspace, making his way, crouched, over… — Jonathan Stone Copy Share Image
“(a deprivation that, in truth, was not so much a daily trial of living as a suffocating flatness of life),” — Jonathan Stone Copy Share Image
“her purse. Evan Nussbaum, Det. 114th Precinct, City of New York. It would be one quick phone call, one quick urgently whispered sentence—the truck… — Jonathan Stone Copy Share Image
“They signified what had mattered to you, and what mattered still.” — Jonathan Stone Copy Share Image
