“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 you gladly chew is just a bit of lamb. Poor little lamb. Who made you?” — 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
