When he stopped being utterly disoriented by the idea, he found that he was afraid in a way he had never been before. (And wasn’t being disoriented a way not to feel afraid, to replace it with a more acceptable emotion? He thought he’d seen a report about that once.) Living isolated for so long h...
Jeanine and I met in the Hyatt Hotel there, the place where parents of Harvard students stay. It had an open lobby with circular floors, and in the bar, we looked up and down at them and felt we were in the middle of a well-heeled honeycomb. I did, anyway. Jeanine had other thoughts. “I keep thin...