The Laugh of Laughs

Of all the laughs that strictly speaking are not laughs, but modes of ululation, only three I think need detain us, I mean the bitter, the hollow and the mirthless. They correspond to successive... h...

Nothing Lasts Too Long

Nothing could be slow enough, nothing lasts too long. No pleasure could equal, she thought, straightening the chairs, pushing in one book on the shelf, this having done with the triumphs of youth, lo...

Somebody and Nobody

People who hold important positions in society are commonly labelled somebodies, and their inverse nobodies - both of which are, of course, nonsensical descriptors, for we are all, by necessity, ...