The world had damaged him, or he had damaged himself, or he had damaged the world, or something.

1) Forced confluences of random or variable systems
2) Dislocation of expected boundaries in relation to contents

With art, he said, it’s not the thing that’s the thing, it’s the thing behind the thing.

They expected nothing, for which they were grateful.

The symbol of the cross, which refers to the indivisible nature of the spirit and the incarnate existence it is nailed to.

Do gorillas throw shit in the wild?

The interview consisted of a single question: What is your comfort level with not knowing? After a long pause, he said, I don’t know. The right answer, apparently.

Could you be a little less oracular? It’s irritating AF.

When I mentioned that even in the absence of an actual box, you could draw a box on the floor and your cat would sit in it, she burst into tears. I can’t stand it she said. That’s too sad. I don’t think that’s sad at all, I said. I think it’s miraculous.

Our neighbor ran a small extermination business from a remodeled garage behind his house. Some weekends we’d sneak in, fascinated by a wall display of such mounted horrors as a freakish two-headed moth with a 12-inch wingspan. Later I discovered that every exterminator had one of these as part of their standard franchise package, fabricated by XYZ Pest Museum in Silver City, NM.