“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 could be a slave to the abundance of one’s own possessions). But the possessions measured progress… — 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
