Throughout that troubled interlude, he felt this spirit, roughly translated as house wind, watching over him.

Why bother? Self defense is by its very nature unconvincing.

What were thought to be diseases turned out to be the body’s unsuccessful attempts at healing.

You lie awake for hours unable to remember if the word is epitaph or epitath. Falling into blackness through a two-letter hole.

Things seem to be picking up at the shop.
Three jobs today.
Total billable hours: .75.
Thy will be done.

The self-consciously Dad things you attempted to pass on to your family—arbitrary techniques, fetishistic naming of parts and categories, unexamined dictums—mattered less than the unacknowledged resentment, grievance, and rage.

At the time it felt catastrophic, but in retrospect it was a golden era.

Observed in the waiting room of the School of Osteopathic Medicine:
1) Man in vomit-splashed pajama top, repeatedly asserting that he is both a lawyer and a doctor
2)