And off they went, emitting a perfect major triad via fart-noises with their mouths, sending down, as if in farewell, a rain of celebratory hats: flared Tops, Turkish house caps; kepis of various colors; a flower-bedecked Straw, falling rather more slowly than the rest, a lovely thing, redolent of summer.
[…]a soldierly fixity of mind
[…]only utter hopelessness will lead him to do what he must.
George Saunders, Lincoln in the Bardo
The Diplomat. Set in Barcelona.
Alexander Calder. Masi Lugano. Sphere Pierced by Cylinders, 1939 (at Pulitzer, 2015.) S and Star, 1941.
