This vacuum cleaner changed my life, made me what I am, but it’s really a piece of shit, has tappets and you should buy some other book. This one is mine.

It was empty, that instrument. They could not give enough breath, they could not breathe in it. They have thrown it away. And he, he took it… He was only half a man. He played like a … Madonna Santissima!

Tom Cruise knows how to read. He is the star of “Top Gun: Maverick”. He made the movie, he is the movie’s audience, and he is the enemy of the U.S. military.

Garrulous tunes are resurrected as introspective reveries: they’ve left behind the din of the square dance for the privacy of the attic.

I do not understand Dhruv, but I trust him completely. 

I was enamored with her wrestling skills and talent for catching lizards (mostly Six-line Racerunners, I think).

"Don't you think people can be cruel because of the narrowness of their point of view and failure to consider others?"
"No."

In the Uber ride to the clinic, I convinced my driver to get vaccinated and helped him schedule an appointment. The clinic brands itself as a one-stop-shop for INNOVATIVE and EXPRESS care, delivered on-demand. The Uber driver identified the location as a former Mini Cooper dealership.

Mouse Magazine has reason to speculate the snub of Bob Dylan by soon-to-be dropout college commies is what inspired the famous spite ballad “A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall” and changed music and American history, forever.

You’d be surprised how little freshmen question things if you great them with a confident “Privet!”

Their compensation is determined entirely by the speed with which they deliver. This gives them a unique, scrambling gait, as they shift between different states of panic.

The still circle of them looked to me like a gathering of Soviets in brown greatcoats around a fire.

In this country, it is an epidemic of loneliness is what I call it. Like a sickness that spreads. Yes, especially with the elderly.