Sin is not just what the catechism says it is. Sin is not simply that which we commit. Sin is also what we desire but are too weak to do.
Any narrative that moves from scene to scene and episode to episode not according to the exigencies of cause and effect but according to some abstract scheme
By definition—and of aesthetic necessity—a story contains profluence, a requirement best satisfied by a sequence of causally related event
They had a maid, a middle-aged Mexican woman with a stolid face who came in for two hours every morning and put the place together just long enough for Elena to scatter it again.
It is so little and yet he is so damned for he has traduced the choirboys and left pregnant half the rich wives of the village
