Is this earth? So beautiful and monstrous? Is this what we were?

It all spoke of the willingness of people to hurt each other, the burning passion to control what other people thought and did. So many people, in secret, subt…

You think my apology means I'm weak. But it doesn't. It means I am trying to learn how to be strong.

He saw them with such better understanding that they took on power and meaning beyond anything in his experience before.

This wild swan of a world is no hunter's game. Better bullets than yours would miss the white breast Better mirrors than yours would crack in the flame. Does i…

In this world with starry dome, Floored with gemlike plains and seas, Shall I never feel at home, Never wholly be at ease?

I have an essay with the title 'Eyes in their Last Extremity'. The title comes from the suicide note of the short-story writer Akutagawa Ryunosuke... It is the…