It knows nothing. And therefore understands everything.
Everyone at the airport is on your right
Angels ends with Bill Houston in the gas chamber, experiencing a moment which sums up Denis Johnson’s writing. “He was in the middle of taking the last breath of his life before he realised he was taking it. He got right in the dark between heartbeats, and rested there. And then he saw that another one wasn’t going to come. That’s it. That’s the last. He looked at the dark. I would like to take this opportunity, he said, to pray for another human being.”
She believed in both God and the alphabet
Nostalgia (from the Greek nostos, meaning homecoming or home and algos, meaning pain) was first used by a medic Johannes Hofer to describe a military disease experienced by Swiss mercenaries on battlefields far from home.
Where else have I never been to
It’s not just the cliffs, The whole world is white. Where my sky is empty, Yours is abundantly clear.
Prosopagnosia = a condition that affects the ability to remember facial features
