Too bad for the storytellers. Too bad for the sense makers, the apologists, that nothing, then or ever, nothing was inevitable. It's just too bad.

“So here is where I am so far, and this is all I know: the world is a big sardin…”

“I spent my next hour reshelving, and the next thirty minutes straightening out …”

“But all this was beside the point. What scared Amy was the mere fact of what lo…”

“When it comes to books, I am a sensuous woman.”